Wednesday, 21 January 2026 | Davos, Switzerland — During the World Economic Forum, Aleria convened a panel discussion at IHC House to examine the relationship between AI infrastructure and sustainability at institutional scale.
The panel featured Eric Leandri, CEO of Aleria; Benjamin Versluijs, SVP at Northern Trust; Moustafa Rashad, CEO of EHC Investment; and Esteban van Goor, CEO of Xange. Moderated by McKinsey & Company.
As AI infrastructure scales globally, sustainability is increasingly recognised as an infrastructure challenge rather than a reporting exercise. Environmental performance, energy efficiency, and governance are inseparable from operational reliability.
The next generation of data centres is fundamentally different. Liquid cooling, complex energy systems, advanced electrical design, and specialised engineering capabilities are now baseline requirements.
From an institutional perspective, sustainability must be embedded into infrastructure from the outset. Energy performance, carbon measurement, and governance frameworks are no longer peripheral considerations.
AI plays a critical role in enabling this shift. By applying large-scale data analysis to infrastructure operations, sustainability becomes measurable, auditable, and enforceable.
The discussion reinforced a shared view that sustainable AI infrastructure depends on trust across the full value chain — from capital deployment and energy systems to governance and jurisdictional integrity.
For Aleria, linking AI and sustainability is not an abstract objective. It is a structural requirement for building resilient, sovereign, and institutionally aligned AI infrastructure.