Oct 15, 2026 · 19 min · 9 segments
What if one of the world's biggest environmental challenges could also become an opportunity to build entirely new industries, create jobs, and drive economic growth? In this episode, we sit down…
Christian KomorGuestAmosHostSo you often frame, uh, carbon as a future resource, uh, rather than just only a problem.
What are that shifts in perspective change?
Here is the The really dynamic part of what we wanna do if, if I'm elected governor here in Colorado, what we wanna do, bring in something ca- what we, we call the, uh, Interstate Sky Carbon Blueprint.
One of the other problems that the world is facing right now is, as many people know, the, these hyper data, data centers for artificial intelligence, which have a huge footprint i- in terms of using energy and water and releasing carbon.
Our plan is to site these, any data centers coming into Colorado right next to the carbon capture plants, which would in turn be right next to, uh, carbon production facilities.
So we've got the data center, and they-- the reason they, they need a lot of water is for cooling the chips.
The-- We can take the heat from the data center and use it as part of that process of capturing the carbon at the carbon capture plant.
It's basically being repatriated from the sky back to the, the, the, to a physical form.
And we can then take the carbon, and we can make things with it, like roads, bridges, biodegradable plastics, something we very much need, jet fuels, fertilizers, all being, um, you know, made with carbon, so they're, they're already part of the natural world, part of our natural system.
So we would be creating significant, uh, GDP and jobs out of that process, and our planning includes we would be powering all this with alternative energy.
Colorado is blessed with a lot of geothermal energy, which we can tap into, and we have a lot of wind and solar capability.
So, and by siting all of this together kind of on the same campus, the expense and the, the, the loss in, in power transmission would, would be much less, and we wouldn't have to attach any of this to the current resources, the energy resources, or the water resources in Colorado.
So we can, at the same time, we can facilitate artificial intelligence, which is going to happen one way or the other.
And we can also clear the atmosphere from the excess carbon that we're, that's threatening us right now.
So we can, we can solve multiple problems at the same time, working in a, in a synergistic manner.
So you often frame, uh, carbon as a future resource, uh, rather than just only a problem.
What are that shifts in perspective change?
Here is the The really dynamic part of what we wanna do if, if I'm elected governor here in Colorado, what we wanna do, bring in something ca- what we, we call the, uh, Interstate Sky Carbon Blueprint.
One of the other problems that the world is facing right now is, as many people know, the, these hyper data, data centers for artificial intelligence, which have a huge footprint i- in terms of using energy and water and releasing carbon.
Our plan is to site these, any data centers coming into Colorado right next to the carbon capture plants, which would in turn be right next to, uh, carbon production facilities.
So we've got the data center, and they-- the reason they, they need a lot of water is for cooling the chips.
The-- We can take the heat from the data center and use it as part of that process of capturing the carbon at the carbon capture plant.
It's basically being repatriated from the sky back to the, the, the, to a physical form.
And we can then take the carbon, and we can make things with it, like roads, bridges, biodegradable plastics, something we very much need, jet fuels, fertilizers, all being, um, you know, made with carbon, so they're, they're already part of the natural world, part of our natural system.
So we would be creating significant, uh, GDP and jobs out of that process, and our planning includes we would be powering all this with alternative energy.
Colorado is blessed with a lot of geothermal energy, which we can tap into, and we have a lot of wind and solar capability.
So, and by siting all of this together kind of on the same campus, the expense and the, the, the loss in, in power transmission would, would be much less, and we wouldn't have to attach any of this to the current resources, the energy resources, or the water resources in Colorado.
So we can, at the same time, we can facilitate artificial intelligence, which is going to happen one way or the other.
And we can also clear the atmosphere from the excess carbon that we're, that's threatening us right now.
So we can, we can solve multiple problems at the same time, working in a, in a synergistic manner.
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