Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns at World Economic Forum that AI industry must prove useful benefits for people, communities and industries or risk losing public support due to massive electricity consumption and infrastructure costs.

Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

Conversation with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft | World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 - YouTube Watch On In a conversation at this year's rich person convention—aka the World Economic Forum—Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI will lose public support unless it's used to "do something useful that changes the outcomes of people and communities and countries and industries."On the supply side, Nadella says that AI companies and policy makers must build out "a ubiquitous grid of energy...