Richard Howitt
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first heard May 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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Welcome to Frankly Speaking, the podcast on responsible business by Frank Bold, the European public interest law firm.
I'm Richard Howitt, and after many years leading debates on responsible business inside the European Parliament, I lead our discussions about the very latest developments in corporate sustainability, sustainable finance, business and human rights.
Today, artificial intelligence, AI and sustainability.
What companies need to know and to do.
You'll have heard the bold claims and the scare stories.
Let's try to make sense of it all.
Two guests join me to explain all of this.
Catherine Dovey, founder of Recalibrate, working on responsible AI issues and for 10 years at the OECD Centre for Responsible Business Conduct, including the period in which the OECD AI principles were agreed.
Catherine, welcome to Frankly Speaking.
And my second guest is Alex de Vries-Gau, data scientist and researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies at University VU Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where he has undertaken extensive research on the environmental impact of AI.
Alex, welcome to Frankly Speaking.
Now, Alex, first, your research shows that data centers powering AI already use energy equal to the entire nation of the United Kingdom and enough water to equal every bottle of water sold in the world for a year.
Exactly how sustainable is AI?
Nine times.
Unbelievable.
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