Webinar: AI as Load Shock: Rethinking Energy Security and Mission Assurance
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 | 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
About the Webinar
The rapid expansion of AI computing, electrification, and mission-critical digital infrastructure is fundamentally altering the energy security landscape. While AI is often discussed as a software capability or data challenge, its most immediate national security impact is physical: unprecedented, concentrated, and inflexible electrical demand that stresses grid infrastructure and traditional resilience assumptions.
This session reframes AI for government policymakers, engineers, and facility managers as a load-driven stressor that challenges long-standing approaches to grid reliability, backup generation, fuel logistics, and distributed energy system design.
Presenters
- Joe Walsh
COO, Centrica Business Solutions/Custom Energy Solutions - Charlie Perham
Matrix Design Group
Moderator
- Ray Arguello
Board Member for Scout
Hosted by the SAME Energy Security COI.
For registration questions or issues, contact registration@same.org.
