Resilient AI & Energy: Green tech as national security
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Please note, this is an interactive event where the audience, working in groups, plays a central role in shaping the discussion's outcome.
"Green Tech” is no longer just an environmental aspiration - it has become a cornerstone of national resilience. The combination of generative AI’s growing demands and a more contested Indo-Pacific is reshaping Australia’s strategic landscape.
At this event, we will explore a critical thesis: In a world of constrained global energy grids and statutory prioritisation, Australia’s ability to "immunise" its critical computing capabilities is essential to injecting confidence into the Alliance structure.
We will examine why the "bigger is better" era of AI models risks turning Australia into a strategic vulnerability during special operational windows, and how Australian innovations in Green AI efficiency (such as Dynamic Depth Decoding) and distributed solar generation provide a unique "sovereign redundancy."
Join us to discover how aligning Clean Tech with National Security transforms Australia from a dependent consumer into a resilient, self-sufficient partner in the AUKUS structure.
Key Learnings
- The "Energy-Security" Nexus: Understanding how US grid constraints and legal frameworks (DPA) in the late 2020s could provide valuable opportunities for developing Australian capabilities.
- Green AI as a Defence Capability: How reducing the compute intensity of Large Language Models (via technologies like D3) enables them to run on local, constrained power sources.
- The Solar Shield: How Australia’s world-leading penetration of distributed solar can be repurposed as a resilient power backbone for critical sovereign data centres.
- From "Cloud First" to "Redundancy First": A new framework for policy that prioritises strategic redundancy and energy resilience for vital government services.