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Episode 5Topic: Climate Tech

How European Climate Tech and AI Are Intertwined

Why climate tech — not just AI — may decide who wins the next decade of global competitiveness.

GuestSaskia BruystenPartner & Co-Founder International, Carbon Equity

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Show notes

Every AI data center needs power, and every power grid needs capital. Saskia Bruysten connects those dots — arguing that climate tech has quietly become cheaper, geopolitically necessary and AI-driven all at once, and that Europe’s real bottleneck isn’t ideas, it’s scaling capital.

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