AI, Energy and Climate: India AI Impact Summit: Arunabha Ghosh

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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More than 35,000 people attended the recent India AI Impact Summit in Delhi, which featured speeches from more than 20 heads of state and dozens of technology company leaders including Sam Altman of OpenAI, Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind. In this episode, host David Sandalow offers his reflections on the Summit and speaks with Arunabha Ghosh, President of CEEW, a leading Delhi-based public policy think tank. Ghosh offers his views on the Summit, data center construction in India and around the world and the role of AI in sustainable development, among other topics. This material is distributed by TRG Advisory Services, LLC on behalf of the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in the U.S.. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.7	Hi, I'm David Sandelow.
1:19.5	This is the AI Energy and Climate Podcast.
1:23.2	I recently attended the AI Impact Summit in Delhi.
1:30.3	I thought it was quite an amazing event, with tens of thousands of people, hundreds and hundreds of substantive sessions, in speeches by more than 20 heads of state, as well as dozens of tech company leaders, including Sam Altman of Open AI, Dario Amade, Anthropic, Demas Hussibis of Google Deep Mind, and many others.
1:43.3	This was the fourth in a series of global
1:45.9	summits on AI. The first was in the United Kingdom in 2023 in Bletchley Park outside London.
1:53.3	The second was in Seoul, South Korea in 2024. The third was last year in Paris, and the fourth was this year in Delhi.
2:02.5	This was the first of these AI summits in a developing country, and a lot of the discussion at the summit centered around the role of AI in developing countries.
2:11.5	The summit was part of Prime Minister Modi's work to put India on the map when it comes to AI, and a lot of people spoke about how the average age of participants in the summit was quite
2:21.8	young, probably in the mid-20s.
2:24.5	While I was in Delhi, I had the chance to visit one of the best organizations working on energy
2:28.5	and environment in India in my experience, the Council on Energy Environment and Water, which is widely known by its initials,
2:36.6	C-E-E-W. It's run by my friend Aeronabha Ghosh, who is consistently thoughtful and insightful
2:42.6	on energy and climate issues. I learned in the course of our conversations that he and his team
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