In this conversation, Arpan Sura, Senior Counsel to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and Chief AI Officer for the Commission, discusses a range of topics related to spectrum, including how the FCC is operationalizing a framework of abundance for this scarce resource. We also discuss the role that spectrum plays in enabling space communications, the ongoing work of bolstering the spectrum pipeline, and how AI is impacting spectrum policy.

As a Commissioner on the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and as the incoming president of NARUC, Jehmal Hudson is a leading thinker and doer at the intersection of AI, data centers, and regulatory policy. In this episode, Jehmal and Michael talk about how state regulators are responding to the many novel challenges arising from the rapid construction of data centers across the country. Are regulators and policy keeping pace? Will the electric grid be able to withstand data centers' enormous demands for power? What about their thirst for water and appetite for data capacity? We explore these and many other issues in this illuminating discussion.