Programs

One flagship question, and the work that surrounds it.

Flagship: Green Power for Asia’s AI Infrastructure

Our core program examines a single question: how will Southeast Asia’s data centres be powered, and at whose expense?

The work covers power procurement rules and their limits, cross-border renewable trade mechanisms, grid connection standards and queue management, and the distribution of transmission costs between industrial users and households.

We treat this as a public policy question rather than a commercial one. The relevant issue is not whether any particular facility gets built, but whether the rules governing all of them produce outcomes the public would accept if it understood them.

Energy policy, regulation and legal risk

We analyse the frameworks governing power procurement, cross-border electricity trade and grid access across Southeast Asia — and where they break down.

This includes tracking how emerging climate litigation across Asia is reshaping the legal risk landscape for energy and data infrastructure projects. We approach this as neutral analysis. We do not act for parties in these disputes.

Cross-regional dialogue

We connect policymakers, researchers and civil society across California and Asia around shared questions of energy, technology and climate.

Much of the useful knowledge in this field is not published anywhere. It sits with regulators, grid operators and project developers who rarely talk to their counterparts across the Pacific. Convening those conversations is not a side activity for us — it is how the research gets good.

Climate Baby

Energy policy is abstract. A child is not.

Through the Climate Baby program, families can receive a Growth Map: a document placing a child’s milestones alongside the milestones of Asia’s energy transition. The year they start school is the year the region’s renewable targets fall due. The year they finish secondary school is the year today’s data centres reach end of life.

The numbers are the same ones in our research. The reason to care is different.

Families can also make a gift in a child’s name through our donate page.