Crusoe & Lowercarbon to Host AI Hackathon to Accelerate Clean Energy Development, OpenAI Offering Credits and Mentoring Hackers, Department of Energy to Speak at Public Workshop
28 Junio 2024 - 4:00PM
Business Wire
**100 engineers, designers and product leaders
will harness a new data set from the Department of Energy (DOE) to
overcome barriers to the federal permitting process for clean
energy projects among other prompts**
Lowercarbon and Crusoe Energy Systems LLC (“Crusoe”), announced
today that they are hosting a “Hackathon for Clean Energy” at
Crusoe’s San Francisco offices. OpenAI will join and provide
credits, technical mentorship and take part in the judging. This
24-hour event beginning Friday afternoon will bring together
experts from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and approximately
100 engineers, designers and product leaders to explore how
artificial intelligence (AI) can help the U.S. bring more clean
energy projects online. Secretary of Government Operations for the
State of California Amy Tong will also help kick off the event.
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The hackathon will include participants from Fortune 500
companies, academia, startups and private capital. Expert mentors
from OpenAI, DOE, National Labs, Crux, and Eli, among others, will
guide participating teams.
The hackathon will be judged by:
- Vanessa Ching, NVIDIA. Vanessa oversees Ecosystem & Startup
Alliances at NVIDIA North America's Inception program for startups,
helping startups to accelerate in AI.
- Clay Dumas, Lowercarbon. Clay is a founding partner at
Lowercarbon.
- Chase Lochmiller, Crusoe. Chase is the co-founder and CEO of
Crusoe, on a mission to align the future of computing with the
future of the climate.
- Jonathan Reiber, OpenAI. Jonathan serves on the Strategic
Intelligence and Analysis team at OpenAI, leading work on scenario
planning, international security, and geopolitical risk
analysis.
- Professor Jane Woodward, an Adjunct Professor in the Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University she
teaches classes on energy and environment.
Harnessing Crusoe’s sustainably-powered Cloud platform and
OpenAI credits, teams of hackers will explore how you can use AI to
accelerate the permitting process and deliver valuable
technological solutions for the public good. Participants will have
access to a new AI-ready data set that was just released to the
public by the Department of Energy and compiled by the Pacific
Northwest National Lab. The data set consists of nearly all
environmental impact statements published by federal agencies since
October 2012, including EIS’s for clean energy projects. This
totals more than 4.8 million documents. Other prompts include
simplifying tax credit monetization for renewable energy developers
and manufacturers and easing access to rebates for home
electrification.
Opening the hackathon on Friday, officials from the U.S.
Department of Energy will host a public workshop focused on how AI
can help accelerate the energy transition by working through key
items such as energy permitting. The workshop will include:
- Charles Yang, Department of Energy, Office of Critical and
Emerging Technologies, AI Policy Advisory focused on DOE’s role
with respect to AI and future AI initiatives;
- Keith Benes, Department of Energy, Senior Fellow providing
context on permitting and how it relates to clean energy
deployment;
- Dan Nally, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Project
Manager; and
- Shivam Sharma, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Data
Scientist focusing on the NEPA permitting process and AI corpus
release.
The Department of Energy public workshop will be available to
livestream here at 2:30pm PT today.
“Crusoe is determined to scale AI sustainably and responsibly
through harnessing the power of clean energy sources,” said Chase
Lochmiller, CEO and Co-Founder of Crusoe. “As AI models have grown,
so has the demand for the electricity and the infrastructure to
power and support these models. AI holds vast potential to overcome
barriers to renewable energy development and society’s energy
demand challenges. It’s very encouraging to see the best minds from
the private sector, government, private capital and academia coming
together to harness the tremendous leap in human innovation that AI
represents.”
"AI's energy demand is multiplying too quick for the power
sector to keep up. Either we move faster, build new tech, and get
out ahead of the tide -- or the AI tsunami will wipe out our plans
for de-fossilization. This hackathon is for the big wave surfers,"
said Clay Dumas, General Partner at Lowercarbon Capital.
The hackathon begins at 2pm on Friday, June 28th and concludes
the afternoon of Saturday, June 29 with a demo day showcase, where
teams will pitch to policymakers, top venture capitalists and
engineering leaders.
About Crusoe:
Crusoe is on a mission to align the future of computing with the
future of the climate. As builders and operators of clean computing
infrastructure, Crusoe reduces both the costs and the environmental
impact of the world’s expanding digital economy. By unlocking
stranded sources of energy to power artificial intelligence,
crypto, and other high performance computing applications, Crusoe
is creating the future of compute-intensive innovation that reduces
emissions rather than adds to them.
To learn more, visit https://crusoe.ai/ and follow Crusoe on
Linkedin and Twitter.
Lowercarbon Capital:
Lowercarbon Capital is a multibillion dollar venture capital
fund founded by Chris and Crystal Sacca that backs kickass
companies making real money slashing CO2 emissions, sucking carbon
out of the sky, and buying us time to unf**k the planet.
To learn more, visit https://lowercarboncapital.com/
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