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The Energy Forum, Inc. is dedicated to fostering public understanding of energy issues including the energy market and industry and of the many challenges facing them in a rapidly changing world. Its regular public lectures and discussions on a variety of relevant topics provide a collegial platform where industry and academic experts, business leaders, policymakers, students, journalists and others can exchange information and ideas about energy issues and interact with one another in a non-partisan environment.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is growing at a fast pace with major technology companies announcing ambitious goals and investments to expand AI infrastructure. Energy plays a key role in enabling the AI expansion and fulfillment of the industry's goals. In this session, we aim to explore how the growth ambitions of AI (like training large models and data center demands) is re-shaping energy consumption and how the energy and tech industries, along with public and private sectors, can innovate to handle the increased demand as AI scales globally. Can existing and emerging energy technology and infrastructure deliver the volume and reliability of power that AI requires? Are we equipped to empower AI's future, or will the energy demands handicap our ability to scale AI?