Forbes January 22, 2026
John Werner

One of the biggest questions around the practical side of AI is power: how are tomorrow’s data centers going to run, and what will they run on?

It’s not a trivial concern. Already, people around the world are weighing the fruits of LLM production with the consumption of power, in a time where we have to think about climate change and our carbon footprints.

So here are some of the things I was hearing about at Davos, where planners huddle to think about the long term solutions to what we now face.

Solar Initiatives

First of all, solar power is big.

That doesn’t even do justice to the true role of solar power in our futures.

China, specifically, is not...

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