The AI Data Center Challenge: Balancing Growth, Communities, and Sustainability

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Official Guests

  • Darrell West, Brookings Institution

  • Janet Egan, Center for a New American Security

  • Brianne Miller, Microsoft

  • Ewelina Czapla, Google

ALI convened leading experts to tackle The AI Data Center Challenge: Balancing Growth, Communities, and Sustainability. Darrell West (Brookings Institution), Janet Egan (Center for a New American Security), Brianne Miller (Microsoft), and Ewelina Czapla (Google) underscored a central reality: data centers are essential to U.S. leadership in AI.

Panelists highlighted Community Benefit Agreements as a key tool to address public concerns--ensuring transparency, accountability, and clear local benefits.

As Janet Egan emphasized, compute power is the defining edge in AI. More data centers mean stronger models, faster innovation, and a critical advantage over China.

AI infrastructure must scale responsibly--strengthening communities through grid resilience and expanded transmission invested in by corporations like Microsoft and Google.

ALI is driving that balance--championing transparency, smart regulation, and democratic values to ensure the U.S. leads in AI the right way.

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