Advance AI with Cleaner Air and Healthier Outcomes
Air Quality and Health Outcomes with AI · 2025-06-26
Without robust transparency and community engagement mechanisms, communities housing data center facilities are left with little influence or recourse over developments that may significantly affect their health and environment.
Air Quality and Health Outcomes with AI. 2025-06-26. Advance AI with Cleaner Air and Healthier Outcomes. https://fas.org/publication/advance-ai-with-cleaner-air-and-healthier-outcomes/ (AI & Environment Resource Hub; record report-177; collection snapshot 2026-09-15).
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Philip Johnston is the co-founder and CEO of Starcloud, the company building data centers in space. In November 2025, Starcloud launched an Nvidia H100 GPU into orbit and trained the first large language model in space. They've since raised $200 million, hit a billion-dollar valuation just 17 months after YC demo day and filed with the FCC to deploy 88,000 more satellites. In this episode, Philip walks us through their wild origin story, the engineering challenges behind the Starcloud-1, why they booked a SpaceX launch before they even knew what they were building and how data centers in space make sense both economically and politically.
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Shared topics: Cross-cutting sustainability; Governance and society; Built environment and infrastructure
We believe that innovation and technological advancement are key to building 21st-century economies in the region. We partner with diverse organizations to fostering economic growth, social progress, and environmental sustainability.
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Shared topics: Cross-cutting sustainability; Governance and society; Built environment and infrastructure
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform how water is managed. Yet, these emerging opportunities raise critical considerations around issues such as data governance, energy use, and the environmental footprint of digital infrastructure. To explore these challenges and opportunities, IWRA is launching a new webinar series: "The Promises and Challenges of AI, Data Centres & Freshwater Futures". Bringing together experts from around the world, the series examines the intersection of emerging technologies and water sustainability.
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Shared topics: Cross-cutting sustainability; Governance and society; Built environment and infrastructure
Anne Currie is the co-author of the acclaimed O’Reilly book “Building Green Software”, a pillar of the GSF, a veteran in the Cloud Industry and also a SF novelist with her series of panopticon books. Preparing her forthcoming keynote at Green IO London, she went all the way down into the rabbit hole of AI and energy efficiency. She investigated from OpenAI to DeepSeek and open source models, what a software developer using these models can and cannot do to reduce energy consumption, and so on.
#63.b AI & Energy Efficiency: just follow the money? with Anne Currie
