An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet: Energize Excerpt
Electricity demand from artificial intelligence is set to quadruple in a decade, making data centers one of the fastest-growing electricity users on the planet. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau explores a new data center in Paris that utilizes the thermal energy produced to heat area homes, a greenhouse and a pool in an effort to lower its energy footprint.
Sponsored by Jefferson County Farmland Protection
Filmmaker: John Ealer
Running Time: 10 mins
Language: English
Type: Short – Festival Highlight
John Ealer is Senior Production Executive at Cream Productions, Toronto-based producers of An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet. John is an Emmy-nominated producer, director and cinematographer with over two decades experience crafting nonfiction films for premium outlets such as Netflix (Roman Empire), CNN (The History of the Sitcom), Hulu (The Game Show Show), HBO (Seen and Heard), History (The World Wars), Discovery (Gold Rush) and many more. Offscreen, John leads his town’s Conservation Advisory Council and CLEAN initiative. John holds an MFA in Cinema Production from USC and a BA from the University of Iowa.
