CAIS Seminar: Dov Greenbaum
From Cloud to Ground: Sovereignty, Sustainability, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
The AI revolution has a physical address. Behind every large language model lies a network of data centers consuming extraordinary quantities of energy and water, reshaping land use, straining power grids, and triggering geopolitical contests over who controls digital infrastructure. This talk examines the collision between AI's insatiable infrastructure demands and the legal, environmental, and sovereignty frameworks struggling to keep pace — from data localization battles and sovereign cloud initiatives to NIMBY conflicts and the hard limits imposed by water scarcity and grid capacity. The question is no longer whether AI will transform society, but whether the physical world can sustain the transformation.
±Ê°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ²õ´Ç°ùÌýDov Greenbaum is director of the Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies at Reichman University.  Dov teaches law at the Harry Radzyner Law School at Reichman University. Prior to becoming a litigator and patent prosecutor, Dov obtained a PhD in Genetics/Bioinformatics – a field converging biology and computer science.  Dov has degrees and postdocs from Yale University, Berkeley, Stanford and ETH Zurich. In addition to teaching numerous law courses at the intersection of law and technology, Dov is also a and an affiliate researcher in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemsitry at Yale University. He is a IAPP certified privacy professional.
