{"podcast":{"title":"Climate Economics with Fexingo: Carbon Pricing, Green Policy, and Sustainability Costs","slug":"climate-economics-with-fexingo-carbon-pricing-green-policy-and-sustainability-costs-7871781","podcast_index_feed_id":7871781,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/business/climate-economics.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/climate-economics/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":119,"summary":"Lucas and Luna break down the real economics behind carbon pricing, green policy, and the hidden costs of sustainability. Each episode examines a specific mechanism — from EU ETS permit prices to the impact of US Inflation Reduction Act subsidies on corporate balance sheets — and traces how these policies ripple through energy markets, manufacturing, and consumer prices. Lucas brings the numbers and institutional context (how the World Bank's carbon pricing dashboard works, what the Social Cost of Carbon actually measures), while Luna pushes for the practical implications: does a €50 carbon tax actually change behavior? What happens when a steel plant in Germany faces both emission costs and Chinese competition? The show serves investors, policy analysts, and business leaders who need to understand climate-related financial risk without the activism or greenwashing. Listeners walk away able to parse a carbon offset market, evaluate a company's net-zero roadmap, and spot the difference between a real price signal and a political slogan. How do you put a number on a ton of carbon — and who pays when that number is wrong? #CarbonPricing #GreenPolicy #SustainabilityCosts #EUETS #Infla…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T06:19:03.667812+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-economics-with-fexingo-carbon-pricing-green-policy-and-sustainability-costs-7871781"},"episode":{"title":"Why Green Data Centers Are Becoming a Grid Problem","slug":"why-green-data-centers-are-becoming-a-grid-problem","published_at":"2026-07-16T07:10:23+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-economics-with-fexingo-carbon-pricing-green-policy-and-sustainability-costs-7871781/why-green-data-centers-are-becoming-a-grid-problem","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-economics-with-fexingo-carbon-pricing-green-policy-and-sustainability-costs-7871781","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/climate-economics/episode-0114.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/climate-economics/episode-0114.mp3","summary":"Data centers already consume roughly 1-2% of global electricity, and AI is accelerating that demand faster than renewables can scale. In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine a single case: a 300-megawatt data center campus proposed in central Ohio that would have required a dedicated natural gas plant to stay online. Local regulators blocked it, sparking a fight over grid reliability, carbon accounting, and the true cost of AI. We walk through the numbers on power purchase agreements, the tension between tech companies' net-zero pledges and their actual load growth, and how utilities are starting to treat data centers like new factories — with all the transmission bottlenecks that implies. This episode drills into one concrete proposal and asks whether the cloud is really as green as its customers believe. #DataCenters #AIEnergy #GridReliability #RenewableEnergy #CarbonAccounting #PowerPurchaseAgreements #NetZero #Ohio #NaturalGas #TransmissionBottlenecks #GreenComputing #CloudEmissions #Utilities #LoadGrowth #PPAs #ClimateEconomics #Business #FexingoBusiness Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Data centers already consume roughly 1-2% of global electricity, and AI is accelerating that demand faster than renewables can scale. In this episode, Luc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":787,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/climate-economics-with-fexingo-carbon-pricing-green-policy-and-sustainability-costs-7871781/episodes/why-green-data-centers-are-becoming-a-grid-problem/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-economics-with-fexingo-carbon-pricing-green-policy-and-sustainability-costs-7871781/why-green-data-centers-are-becoming-a-grid-problem.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}