In Episode 008 of Toronto Talks, Ash and Sophie tackle the global energy crisis brewing beneath the surface of progress. As AI, EVs, and data centers surge in demand, the world’s power grids—built for a slower, simpler time—are buckling under the pressure.
From the collapse of carbon markets to the return of coal, from frozen infrastructure to the promise of microgrids and private nuclear, we explore:
⚡ Segment 1: The New Arms Race is Measured in Terawatts — Why AI and compute demand are outpacing global energy supply.
⚡ Segment 2: Gridlocked: Why We Can’t Plug in the Future — Bureaucracy, NIMBY politics, and the broken systems throttling progress.
⚡ Segment 3: Carbon Markets, Market Signals, and the Return of Coal? — The policy backfires pushing us back to fossil fuels.
⚡ Segment 4: Where Do We Go from Here? — Decentralized grids, private nuclear, and the blueprint for powering the next century.
In a world this electrified, is energy scarcity a technological problem—or a failure of imagination? Join us as we map the fault lines of the coming energy war—and what it will take to power the future.
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