person
Barath Raghavan
USC professor; digital infrastructure and AI energy
USC computer scientist whose work on internet infrastructure and AI energy has informed mainstream discussion of compute-and-climate tradeoffs.
current Assistant Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Strategy positions
Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues AI energy consumption must be treated as first-class infrastructure cost, with accountability for usage.
If AI consumes 10% of world electricity, we should decide that consciously, not as an emergent property.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.