Reshaping the Energy Landscape

Power is quickly becoming the defining constraint of the AI era. As data center demand accelerates and generative AI drives a hockey-stick curve in electricity consumption, the question isn’t just how we generate more power — it’s how we use it more intelligently. In this session from Yotta 2025, DatacenterDynamics’ Alex Dickins sits down with David Chernis, Director of Flexible Compute Platforms at CPower, to explore how flexible demand, AI workloads, and grid participation could reshape the energy landscape for digital infrastructure. From spiky inference loads to demand response markets and the concept of being a “good grid citizen,” this conversation looks at how the data center industry can unlock new capacity while supporting the grid.