MASTERCLASS · MEGAWATTS, NOT TOKENS · AI, ENERGY, SUSTAINABILITY: THE NEXUS
Megawatts, Not Tokens AI, Energy & Sustainability: The Nexus
What a token actually is, what it costs, and what it takes from the grid, the full chain from your AI bill to the power plant, from someone who builds them.
THE JOURNEY
Every token has a dollar, a megawatt, a liter, and emissions attached. By the end, you'll read any AI headline through all four at once.
01
TOKEN
What AI is actually made of, and the multiplier hiding inside it.
02
COST
From the price list to your real invoice.
03
GRID
The steel, silicon, and megawatts behind the screen.
04
EMISSIONS
The carbon, electricity, and water the builders themselves disclose.
05
RESPONSIBLE BUILD
Responsible AI starts with Responsible Build: building it clean from day one.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- What a token actually is, and how a real tokenizer splits your words into pieces
- Why "training" and "inference" are two completely different cost universes
- Why the same unit of AI sells at prices hundreds of times apart, and why your invoice never matches the price list
- What a real AI agent task actually costs, step by step, and why the multiplier isn't on the price list
- Why a data center developer started buying gas turbines directly instead of waiting on the grid
- What $725 billion of hyperscaler capex buys, and why the market now asks about time-to-energy
- What a 228-gigawatt order backlog means for how long this buildout actually takes
- What Google, Microsoft, and Amazon admit about AI's environmental cost in their own reports
- Why water, not just electricity, is a hidden line item in every AI bill
- Why consent (not capital, chips, or megawatts) is becoming the binding constraint on the buildout
- Responsible Build: how to build AI infrastructure clean from day one, and why retrofits never catch up
KEY BENEFITS
- Stop guessing at AI costs: understand exactly what drives your bill
- Make smarter build-vs-buy calls on AI tooling and agent workflows
- Speak the language of AI economics in any boardroom or vendor conversation
- See past the chip headlines to the infrastructure story actually being priced in by the market
- Understand the sustainability tradeoffs your organization's AI strategy is quietly making
- Walk away with a practitioner's framework for where AI, energy, and opportunity intersect
- Position yourself ahead of a shortage most people haven't noticed yet
MASTERCLASS DETAILS
- Format
- Live online or in person
- Modules
- 5
- Prerequisites
- None
- Instructor
- Yasin Kasirga
- Session length
- 60 to 90 min, incl. open Q&A
CURRICULUM
BRING IT TO YOUR TEAM
I deliver this masterclass live, online or in person and also as keynote. All five modules, tailored to your sector, with open Q&A at the end.
- All five modules, delivered live
- Tailored to your context and your questions
- Open Q&A with Yasin
Individuals and smaller groups: get in touch and tell me what you need.