--- title: KR Sridhar: The 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders of 2026 description: Find out why KR Sridhar is on TIME's 2026 list of the 100 most influential leaders driving business climate action. canonical: https://time.com/collection/time100-climate/2026/kr-sridhar/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2026-11-09T13:00:59.242Z article:modified_time: 2026-11-09T13:00:59.338Z article:section: Collection Item og:title: KR Sridhar: The 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders of 2026 og:description: Find out why KR Sridhar is on TIME's 2026 list of the 100 most influential leaders driving business climate action. og:url: https://time.com/collection/time100-climate/2026/kr-sridhar/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt60ce0b39d918ca0f/6aece45ab713ade6fa66f305/261123_T100CLIM_T_Sridhar.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: KR Sridhar: The 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders of 2026 og:type: article twitter:card: summary twitter:title: KR Sridhar: The 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders of 2026 twitter:description: Find out why KR Sridhar is on TIME's 2026 list of the 100 most influential leaders driving business climate action. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt60ce0b39d918ca0f/6aece45ab713ade6fa66f305/261123_T100CLIM_T_Sridhar.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 09, 2026 # KR Sridhar > Sponsored content. 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Oracle’s 2026 decision to make Bloom fuel cells the primary source for an enormous new data center campus with one of America’s largest data center microgrids gave Bloom’s approach a significant boost (though the system is expected to run on natural gas initially). _—Justin Worland_ **What is the single most important action you think the public, or a specific company or government, needs to take in the next year to advance the climate agenda?** The most important action is to modernize clean energy planning and permitting so we can build the power capacity the economy increasingly requires. Electricity demand is growing, but the processes for planning, approving, and deploying new energy infrastructure have not kept pace. Governments and regulators should focus on removing unnecessary barriers that slow the development of the new generation and the infrastructure needed to support it. This is not simply about building more power. It is about creating a system that can bring cleaner energy resources online at the speed and scale required while maintaining reliability. The technologies to make meaningful climate progress increasingly exist. The challenge is creating the conditions to deploy them. Over the next year, policymakers have an opportunity to make that deployment easier. Updating planning and permitting frameworks would help bring more clean, reliable power online, support rising electricity demand, and accelerate the transition to a lower-carbon energy system. **What is a climate solution that isn't getting the attention or funding it deserves?** Shared infrastructure to move captured carbon dioxide and store it permanently underground deserves far more attention. Carbon capture can separate CO2 before it enters the atmosphere, but that step alone does not reduce a facility’s emissions over the long term. The CO2 must then reach a suitable geologic formation, be injected through a permitted well and be monitored to ensure it remains contained. Without access to a pipeline or another transport option, the captured CO2 has nowhere to go. Building a dedicated route and storage site may be out of reach for one facility, even when its capture technology is viable. Steel, chemical production, and certain sources of dependable power face similar constraints in reducing hard-to-abate emissions. Federal and state governments can help build the necessary capacity and ensure that capacity adheres to rigorous safety and accountability standards. As more facilities pursue carbon capture, they will need access to shared routes that can move CO2 to secure underground storage. Building that network in parallel gives those investments a credible path to prevent captured emissions from reaching the atmosphere. **Do you think AI will help or worsen the climate crisis?** AI will increase electricity demand, and that demand carries a real climate cost if it is met with high-emitting power or used inefficiently. At the same time, that technology can help address some of the physical problems that have slowed climate progress, including how we design and manage the grid, develop new materials, and operate energy-intensive industries. For utilities, better forecasts can improve planning for shifting electricity demand and weather impacts on wind and solar. That gives operators a more strategic basis for scheduling generation, storage and transmission capacity. In research, AI can narrow the range of battery materials, catalysts, and industrial processes that require physical testing, allowing scientists to devote time and resources on the most promising options. At Bloom, digital twins of our installed fleet give engineering and manufacturing teams a real-time view of how systems perform in the field. Ultimately, the goal is to improve system reliability while reducing wasted material, energy and time. AI companies can help accelerate this kind of progress through the choices they make around power and technology investment. Their scale enables them to fund new approaches to cleaner generation and more efficient operations. As those approaches prove their value, they can become more accessible to manufacturers, hospitals, and other large energy users. AI’s climate impact will be shaped by how the sector builds and powers the computing capacity now coming online. Pairing that growth with cleaner electricity, while applying AI to cut energy and material waste in the physical economy, is key to advancing climate progress. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-climate/2026/kr-sridhar/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-climate/2026/kr-sridhar/"},"headline":"KR Sridhar","datePublished":"2026-11-09T13:00:59.242Z","dateModified":"2026-11-09T13:00:59.338Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collection/time100-climate/2026/kr-sridhar/","keywords":["TIME100 Climate 2026","list","franchise"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt60ce0b39d918ca0f/6aece45ab713ade6fa66f305/261123_T100CLIM_T_Sridhar.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"KR Sridhar"}],"creator":"KR Sridhar","articleSection":"Collection Item","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt60ce0b39d918ca0f/6aece45ab713ade6fa66f305/261123_T100CLIM_T_Sridhar.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-climate/2026/","name":"TIME100 Climate 2026"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-climate/2026/kr-sridhar/","name":"KR Sridhar"}}]}] ```