Resilience in the Built Environment: Unlocking the Social License for AI (with Hunter Maats and Ameet Konkar @ Resilience Investments)

This is CC Pod - the Climate Capital Podcast. You are receiving this because you have subscribed to our Substack; manage.Disclaimer: For full disclosure, Resilience Investments is a portfolio company at Climate Capital, where Sundeep Ahuja is the Founder and General Partner. CC Pod is not investment advice and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any investment decision.But first: Network Fund & Climate Angels→Invest in the Network Fund. Large fund access with micro-fund minimums.→Join Climate Angels. Sessions w/ top investors, discounted carry, community & more.Don’t miss an episode from Climate Capital!Recorded during San Francisco Climate Week and co-sponsored by Goodwin, this conversation was part of our event, “Resilience in the Built Environment: Unlocking the Social License for AI.”In this episode, Sundeep sits down with co-founders Ameet Konkar (Chief Executive Officer) and Hunter Maats (Chief Strategy Officer). Together with co-founder Jay Lipman (President), they launched Resilience Investments, a real estate asset manager focused on building portfolios that can not only withstand climate change but thrive in the face of rising energy costs, aging infrastructure, and shifting population patterns.Resilience begins with naturally occurring affordable housing, such as upgrading older single-family homes with rooftop solar, battery storage, insulation, and other improvements that lower utility bills, enhance comfort, and make homes more resilient to extreme weather. These upgrades preserve affordability while transforming aging housing stock into distributed energy assets.By aggregating thousands of homes into virtual power plants, Resilience creates dispatchable energy capacity that can be sold to hyperscalers building AI data centers. This model allows data center developers to secure reliable power and demonstrate tangible community benefits. At the same time, residents receive lower or even zero electricity bills, home repairs, and access to skilled trades jobs.This model helps data center developers earn the trust and support of local communities by delivering visible, recurring benefits such as lower energy bills, home repairs, and skilled trades jobs. It offers a compelling vision for how affordable housing, climate resilience, and AI infrastructure can work together to create lasting value for both communities and investors.To learn more about Resilience Investments, visit https://resilience.energy/. ​*Goodwin's Climate Tech practice has the mission of supporting clients' efforts to avert the worst consequences of the global environmental crisis by providing differentiated and highly sophisticated legal services to startups and startup investors in the climate technologies sector. Our clients are developing and scaling innovations in climate software, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage, nuclear fusion, batteries, mobility, sustainable agriculture, materials science, advanced manufacturing, plastic alternatives, and other areas. Our team is the first of its kind in the industry, consisting of experts in the field with backgrounds not only in law, but in biotech sciences, engineering, and public health policy development. As such, we are able to provide proactive and comprehensive legal services to climate technology enterprises and investors across the globe. To learn more about our global law firm, please visit www.goodwinlaw.com. Get full access to Climate Capital at climatecap.substack.com/subscribe