Energy Digital Magazine October 2024 | Page 21

we ’ re increasingly looking to energy as the pathway to do so . If you look at transportation and EVs , for example , you ’ re seeing analogies of that in almost every sector . Big industrial sectors are looking to decarbonise by joining the grid – that ’ s helping their emissions , but putting more pressures on the grid . This is where energy strategy comes in .
We have to not only succeed for the energy sector but for layers of sustainability , helping other sectors decarbonise by making sure they can join the grid and be successful in their own efforts to decarbonise .
One of the ways we see this play out today is with data centres and AI .
There ’ s a lot of growth in data centres and that ’ s leading towards thirstier needs on the power grid . We want to be able to meet those needs while helping companies realise their decarbonisation and climate change goals . Energy strategy becomes core through an entire other sector – across the data centre , cloud and AI industries , which also has national security ramifications .
Energy strategy is key to promoting really good policies like onshoring and industrialisation policy , but also enabling companies to realise their decarbonisation goals at the same time . energydigital . com 21