Event presented by Reimagine Buildings Collective
Friday, July 17th from 12pm-1pm eastern (Virtual)
For this first session, we'll dive into two articles that offer two takes on AI and energy/water use. At first blush, they seem VERY divergentā¦but they actually draw on the same underlying data. Taken together, they help lay out a lot of the questions swirling around AI's environmental and social impact:
How much electricity does AI consume? [2025 summary] by Hannah Ritchie https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/ai-electricity-2025
Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Carbon, Water, and Land Footprints by UNU-INWEH https://unu.edu/inweh/collection/environmental-cost-of-AIs-Enrgy-Use-Carbon-water-and-land-footprints
About the Summer Reading Club
Part of Reimagine Summer in the Collective.
Coming across a great idea is one thing. Getting to dig into it with a virtual room of sharp Reimaginers is another. This is a standing invitation to do the second one.
Every two weeks, we'll share a short, curated set of recommendations, each hand-picked by our Summer Sessions experts: an article to read, a podcast to listen to, a video to watch, and a case study to pick apart. Yes, it's a reading club that also assigns podcasts and videos. We contain multitudes. š These are the pieces shaping how leading practitioners think right now, across high-performance building, decarbonization, resilience, and health.
Then we gather to talk it through, trading takeaways, pushing back, and figuring out together which ideas are worth bringing into our own work.
No quizzes or book reportsā¦just bring a reaction, a question, or a hunch you want to think out loud with people who get it.
Four Fridays this summer: July 17, July 31, August 14, and August 28.
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