Contributors Acknowledgements Sincere appreciation is extended to the following community members who provided both critical feedback and use case contributions. Uthman Ali Global Responsible AI Officer, BP Will Cavendish Global Digital Services Lead, Arup Kelsi Doran Strategy Director, Cisco Sustainability, Cisco Simon Evans Director, Global Digital Energy Leader and Global Digital Twin Leader, Arup Antonia Gawel Global Director, Sustainability and Partnerships, Google Benedikt Gieger Project Fellow, AI Transformation of Industries, C4IR Digital Technologies, SAP Ian Hodgkinson Professor, Loughborough Business School, Loughborough University Thomas W. Jackson Professor, Loughborough Business School, BridgeAI Programme, Loughborough University. Fariz Jafarov Head, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution AzerbaijanMariah Kennedy Director, Energy and Sustainability (Global), Microsoft Astrid Kristoffersen Group Director, Research and Development, DNV Chase Lochmiller Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Crusoe Shashi Menon Vice-President, Digital Development, SLB Dionis Minev Lead Scientist, CATALOG Peter Nemmert Sales and Marketing Director, Clean Air Solutions, Johnson Matthey Anne Nguyen Managing Director, Strategy, Liberty Global Chris Pennington Director, Energy and Sustainability, Iron Mountain Information Management Andreas Proesch Vice-President, Strategic AI Development, Cognite; Head, Aker AI Unit, Cognite Michael Quirk Media Relations Strategist, Southern Company Sam Ramadori, Chief Executive Officer, Brainbox AILead authors Ginelle Greene-Dewasmes Initiatives Lead, Artificial Intelligence and Energy, C4IR Digital Technologies, World Economic Forum Michael Higgins Project Fellow, AI Governance Alliance, Strategy Principal Director, US Utilities Strategy, Accenture Thapelo Tladi Lead, Energy Initiatives, Centre for Energy and Materials, World Economic ForumProject team Maria Basso Digital Technologies Portfolio Manager, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum Kathryn White Krumpholz Managing Director, Accenture, Innovation Incubation; Executive Fellow, AI Governance Alliance Artificial Intelligence’s Energy Paradox: Balancing Challenges and Opportunities 24

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