IWIB’s World Water Week Luncheon - The Water Footprint of AI Data Centers

During World Water Week (WWW) in Stockholm, IWIB is proud to invite you to a WWW side-event as part our efforts to support The UN’s 2030 Sustainability Development Goals. Join us to meet and listen to guest speaker Somya Joshi, Head of Division – Global Agendas, Climate and Systems at The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). During this session we will discuss the issue aroun The Water Footprint of AI Data Centers and possible solutions as the energy consumption of data centers contributes to climate change, which in turn affects global water resources as climate change impacts water availability and data centers require even more energy for cooling.

About Somya Joshi

Somya Joshi is Head of Division – Global Agendas, Climate and Systems at The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Headquarters. Here her main focus lies on developing her team’s research capacity around decision making, stakeholder engagement, technology and process innovation towards realizing the sustainable development goals. In addition to that, she supports colleagues at SEI, on co-creation and co-production methodologies for both stakeholder dialogue and policy design.

Somya’s research has so far been focused on technological innovation, particularly in how it translates data & systems science into transparency and accountability in governance. She has over ten years of experience working with a range of partners from academia, industry, NGOs, as well as international development organisations, towards the common goal of facilitating inclusive and sustainable development.

After being awarded her doctoral degree from Manchester, UK in local participatory decision making, Somya was offered a position at Cambridge University, UK, with the mandate to investigate the efficacy of Global Development Organisations. This experience allowed her to participate in international development cooperation and methods development related to multi-level governance, with particular focus on the global development goals.

Everyone has a role to play – actions at the individual and household levels are vital. The private sector as well as the finance sector have a very important and even decisive role to play. Examples and recommendations will be presented and discussed.

🌟 This event is sponsored by Eversheds Sutherland.

Welcome!

Ewa Borin

IWIB’s Philanthropy Advisor

Tatiana Caldas-Löttiger

IWIB4AI Founder & CEO