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Under The Hood Of AI
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| With Advait Arun (Capital Markets, Center For Public Enterprise), Nandan Kumar Jha (NYU Center for Cybersecurity), Pat Garofalo (Dir. State & Local Policy, American Economic Liberties Project), Eliza Martin (ex-Fellow, Harvard Law School). |
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Feb 09 (Mon) , 2026 @ 01:00 PM
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On the layers of infrastructure supporting large language models: GPUs, data centers, utilities, & the financial flows funding it all.
Under the Hood of AI
Join NYU LPE, ACS, Energy Law, & Rights/Tech to ask the AI-related questions that should be on your mind: Where is artificial intelligence? Is it really worth trillions of dollars? Where are these investments going, & who decides what happens next? Finding solid answers will require taking a closer look at the layers of infrastructure that support large language models: GPUs, data centers, power utilities, & the financial flows funding it all.
Dive under the hood of AI with the authors of some of the best research on AI infrastructure from 2025: Advait Arun (Bubble or Nothing) & Eliza Martin (Extracting Profits from the Public). They will be joined by Nandan Kumar Jha, an NYU Ph.D. candidate in Electrical & Computing Engineering specializing in LLM systems, & Pat Garofalo, an economic policy expert who has been tracking the policy infrastructure supporting data center development.
Together they will delve into the AI industry's explosive demands for computing infrastructure & explore the impacts of this buildout on local communities, natural resources, the financial economy, & the public at large.
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Lunch provided (please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions or accessibility needs). Please register for a ticket to receive the exact room.
This event is open to the public. It will also be livestreamed via Zoom; please register here for the link.
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Advait Arun is Senior Associate for Capital Markets at the Center for Public Enterprise, in Washington, D.C. Advait is a climate finance & energy infrastructure analyst whose work focuses on identifying & addressing the barriers to mobilizing public & private finance toward the green transition. His project areas center on capital market & energy finance modeling. He formerly worked for the United States Treasury Department's Office of Sustainable Infrastructure.
Eliza Martin is a former Legal Fellow at Harvard Law School's Environmental & Energy Law Program. Eliza works on electricity & power sector issues. She received her J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School, where she was a member of the Abrams Environmental Law Clinic & interned for FERC Commissioner Allison Clements. Before attending law school Eliza worked for a member of the Texas House of Representatives & was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow.
Nandan Kumar Jha is a 6th-year PhD candidate at the NYU Center for Cybersecurity, working at the intersection of large language models, representation learning, & privacy-preserving machine learning. His research develops the scientific foundations of large language models, with an emphasis on reducing expensive nonlinearities for efficient private inference. His work has appeared at leading ML venues, including ICML, ICLR, & EMNLP, & aims to bridge theory, system efficiency, & the real-world deployment of foundation models.
Pat Garofalo is the director of state & local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project. He is the author of The Billionaire Boondoggle: How Our Politicians Let Corporations & Bigwigs Steal Our Money & Jobs & writes the Boondoggle newsletter on Substack. A former journalist, he has been writing about economic policy issues since 2008.
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The event cosponsors are the NYU Law & Political Economy Association, the American Constitution Society at NYU Law, the Energy Committee of NYU Law's Environmental Law Society, & Rights/Tech.
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