“There's a point where enough nature disappears, and we’ll disappear too,” @MissionBlue founder @SylviaEarle tells @AmyAHarder. “We have to take care of what makes Earth habitable.” #AxiosHouse#

Energy Empire host @JigarShahDC tells @AmyAHarder the one thing he would change about the energy world: “We are in a place where people want to do things the same way that their grandfather taught them to do them, and it's clearly not working." #AxiosHouse#

Emerald AI founder and CEO @vsiv to @AmyAHarder on the 3 recent inflection points in AI and energy: 1. Demand for compute has intensified 2. Energy has become a bottleneck 3. The political backlash against data centers has accelerated #AxiosHouse#

.@Amazon chief sustainability officer @KaraHurst announces onstage to @AmyAHarder that Amazon is contributing $20 million to help communities grapple with the water crisis in the Western U.S. “We're looking to get this money into action immediately.” #AxiosHouse#

.@SenBrianSchatz tells @Ben_Geman that a bipartisan permitting reform deal is “very close,” saying lawmakers are in the “final stages” of negotiations. “Whether or not it's in the next couple of weeks, I think remains to be seen.” #AxiosHouse#

.@Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert tells @AmyAHarder that apathy around the environment is “one of our biggest challenges” going into the midterm elections. “Are people wrestling with a lot right now? Absolutely. Is hoping that somehow this will resolve itself without you having to do anything a reasonable strategy? Absolutely not.” #AxiosHouse#

.@nvidia head of sustainability Josh Parker tells @AmyAHarder that growing public concern about data centers has the AI industry focusing more on explaining the infrastructure’s environmental and social impacts, as well as its potential benefits. “Tying the infrastructure to these overall benefits that we're seeing in society, I think it's going to continue to be a challenge.” #AxiosHouse#

Our founder and CEO, JB Straubel, is joining Axios House at New York Climate Week to talk about the energy constraints behind the AI boom and why waiting on new grid capacity won't solve it. The real fix means going back to first principles: where the energy actually comes from, how you store it, and how you deliver it reliably at the load profiles AI demands, not the ones the grid was built for decades ago. It's the thesis behind Redwood Energy: build power where the load is, use what already exists, starting with EV batteries that still have plenty of life left and skip the years-long queue for new capacity. Tune in live at 11:45 AM ET