“It’s really a question of will… Do we want the exciting future or the scary future?” — Scot BrysonScot Bryson — Founder of Orbital Farm, General Partner at Impactful Capital, circular-systems thinker and long-standing NASA collaborator — joins Samraj to explore how AI is heating the planet, how waste heat could become one of the most powerful sustainability tools we have, and why the future of data centres will shape the future of civilisation.EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS0:00 ➤ Intro / Guest Welcome0:56 ➤ Ethics from a 50,000-ft ecosystem view2:16 ➤ What ethics means in circular systems3:15 ➤ The meaning behind “Orbital Farm”4:33 ➤ Space habitats & circular industrial thinking5:37 ➤ Abundance vs scarcity: the global contradiction7:00 ➤ How we define “abundance” properly8:04 ➤ Scot’s NASA work: astronaut health & extreme systems9:18 ➤ Converting asteroids into soil & lunar glass habitats10:51 ➤ The ISS: 25 years of a perfect closed ecosystem13:02 ➤ Positive futures vs doom narratives14:03 ➤ Why practical optimism matters15:19 ➤ Waste heat: the most overlooked resource in AI16:47 ➤ Data centres as heaters, not energy problems18:06 ➤ Industrial heat reuse: cement, steel, greenhouses19:22 ➤ Eliminating waste streams to improve productivity20:30 ➤ AI, superintelligence & symbiotic infrastructure22:00 ➤ Mutual survival: lessons from nuclear deterrence23:30 ➤ Heat reuse in hot climates & desalination24:42 ➤ Low-temperature desalination & vacuum systems26:01 ➤ Why hyperscalers must redesign data centres27:01 ➤ Investors, coalitions & financing green infrastructure28:17 ➤ What we can implement today29:25 ➤ “If you led the world…” — Scot’s blueprint31:10 ➤ Germany’s heat-sharing mandates32:38 ➤ Carrot vs stick: cheaper capital for green data centres34:08 ➤ Sustainable-linked debt & data centre certification35:12 ➤ What Google, Amazon & Microsoft must do now36:30 ➤ Zero-carbon commitments & the scaling tension37:33 ➤ Heat-based communities & hyper-local food systems38:45 ➤ Power purchase agreements for sustainability40:49 ➤ Why procurement is the real lever of climate action41:54 ➤ Google’s 1.3 quadrillion tokens & global energy impact44:12 ➤ EU emissions reporting & advertising’s carbon footprint45:14 ➤ Scot’s question for the audience47:44 ➤ Individual action vs organisational impact49:50 ➤ Institutional influence: universities & endowments52:40 ➤ Closing reflections54:20 ➤ Thank You & End🎥 YouTube: https://youtube.com/@TheAILyceum🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/034vux8EWzb9M5Gn6QDMza🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ai-lyceum/id1837737167🎧 Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/5a67f821-89f8-4b95-b873-2933ab977cd3/the-ai-lyceum🌐 Website: https://theailyceum.com#ai #artificialintelligence #sustainability #datacenters #energy #climate #genai #theailyceum #scotbryson #futureoftech #infrastructure #circularsystems #philosophy

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