New Delhi, March 15 -- The world is at an inflection point. We have entered the age of artificial intelligence (AI), an era in which 'intelligence' is becoming cheap, fast and widely accessible. This will unlock breakthroughs across sectors: from agriculture to healthcare and manufacturing to education. But it also forces us to confront a hard truth: the AI revolution has a real physical footprint.

Training and running large AI models demands significant energy, compute infrastructure and water for cooling. Scaling AI without rethinking efficiency and energy sources risks building tomorrow's digital economy on yesterday's carbon curve. The opportunity-and responsibility-of this moment is clear: the next phase of economic growth must be p...