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🎙️ The Great Grid Bottleneck: AI Expansion vs. Energy Reality With Jigar Shah
🗓️ Tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov 11 at 3:30 PM ET.

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Connecting a new AI project to the power grid can take more than four years. Somebody has to pay for the upgrades, and nobody agrees on who.

Jigar Shah has spent his career on this problem. He started SunEdison, then ran the Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office from 2021 to 2025, a $108 billion lending operation. TIME put him on its list of the 100 most influential people in climate. He has watched utilities, developers, and Washington argue about this from the inside.

What makes him worth an hour is that he gives a straight answer. Should data centers pay for their own power? Should everyone else's bill go up? Can the power grid keep pace with AI at all? Jigar has a view on each, and he is not shy about it.

He's live on Collective[i] Forecast tomorrow, Wednesday, November 11 at 3:30 PM ET, taking questions from the community.

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