Featured Talks

  • Can we increase sustainable energy with AI? | The Prompt with Trevor Noah

    2025

    Discussion with Trevor Noah about AI and sustainable energy

    Catalyst: A skeptic's take on AI electricity load growth

    2025

    Latitude Media podcast on AI energy demand skepticism

  • Insights on AI & Sustainability from Jonathan Koomey

    2024

    TechArena discussion on AI and sustainability

    What Is The Carbon Cost of Our Digital Lives?

    2024

    KQED Forum podcast on the environmental cost of digital technology

    A Skeptic's Take on AI and Energy

    2024

    Shift Key podcast on AI energy consumption

  • Solving climate change with Jonathan Koomey and Ian Monroe

    2023

    Physics World podcast on climate solutions

    Powering AI Solutions

    2023

    UPSTACK Podcast Episode 4 with Dr. Jonathan Koomey

  • Jonathan Koomey: Firming a Clean Grid as we Grow Clean Energy

    2022

    Presentation on firming a clean electrical grid

  • Early Internet Energy Panics, Brandolini's Law and...

    2021

    Podcast on early internet energy predictions and misinformation

    Computation & Energy

    2021

    Podcast on the relationship between computation and energy use

  • XE Network — Facts and Falsehoods in Energy Transition

    2016

    Episode 23 of the XE Network Energy Transition Show

    C-SPAN: Energy and Climate Change

    2016

    C-SPAN public affairs event on energy and climate change

  • Data Center Dynamics

    July 2013

    Why predictive modeling is essential for managing a modern computing facility

    Google: How Green is the Internet?

    June 2013

    Internet Infrastructure Energy 101

  • ARM TechCon 2012

    October 2012

    Why Ultra-Low Power Computing Will Change Everything

    Greenbiz VERGE conference

    March 2012

    The Computing Trend that Will Change Everything

  • Uptime Institute Symposium

    May 2010

    Power Related Advantages of Cloud Computing (Excerpts)

    Stanford University

    April 2010

    Debating Bjorn Lomborg about climate solutions at an event sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank

  • UC Davis

    March 2010

    Honoring Arthur Rosenfeld with a new unit in his name.

    UC Berkeley

    March 2010

    Electrical Efficiency Trends of Computation Over Time

  • GreenNet 09

    March 2009

    The Environmental Cost of Cloud Computing

    Testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress

    July 2008

    Efficiency: The Hidden Secret to Solving Our Energy Crisis

  • Google Tech Talk

    December 2007

    Electricity Use & Efficiency of Servers

    Stanford University

    July 2004

    Winning the Oil Endgame (Excerpts)

Jonathan Koomey

About Talks

Koomey is a frequent speaker at conferences, universities, and private functions.

To the left are videos from some of Koomey’s lectures. If you’d like to have Koomey talk at your event, please email Jon.