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Phillip Bruner

Professor & Founder of Climate Risk Lab, Foster School of Business, University of Washington

Bridging academia and industry on climate-related financial risk, energy market resilience, and the infrastructure choices that will define America's AI era.

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Climate Risk Energy Market Resilience Data Center Infrastructure Renewable Microgrids Net Zero Strategy AI & Energy Policy

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Phillip Bruner is a professor at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business and founder of the nation's first Climate Risk Lab housed at a business school. He advises institutions on climate-related financial risk and energy market resilience, with a particular focus on the infrastructure decisions shaping America's AI and digital economy.

Articles by Phillip Bruner

July 20, 2026 Who Owns the Future: Community Power in the Age of AI When the first-quarter numbers on America's data center backlash arrived this spring, they showed that at least 20 proposed data centers were canceled after local opposition in the first three months. September 22, 2025 Op-Ed: Net-Zero AI — Why America's Data Infrastructure Must Lead on Resilience As AI growth strains a 20th-century grid, U.S. data centers face a choice: depend on increasingly fragile centralized power, or adopt net-zero AI by integrating renewable microgrids for uninterrupted service, faster deployment, and long-term cost certainty.

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