23 Oct 2025 | THK G20 Bali GBFA Dialogue | “Center of Future Knowledge: Sustainable AI for Our Common Future”

Artificial Intelligence is reshaping economies, societies and governance. Yet, its transformative power depends not only on vast computing resources — data centres, high-performance clusters, and the clean energy and water that sustain them — but also on how AI itself is developed, owned, and governed. Today, access to this “sovereign compute” and the capacity to develop “sovereign AI” — AI systems and capabilities that reflect a nation’s own priorities, values, and data — has become a strategic imperative.

The global race to build AI-ready infrastructure and capabilities is accelerating, yet investment flows are fragmented and capacity remains heavily concentrated in a few geographies, while many emerging economies risk being left behind. This imbalance threatens to widen the digital divide and limit innovation in critical fields like health, life sciences, agriculture, and climate adaptation – areas where AI can deliver life-changing benefits. At the same time, the highly energy- and water-intensive nature of datacentres and compute clusters risk deepening the climate footprint of the digital economy. Building distributed, trusted, and sustainable compute capacity together with inclusive, ethical, and AI capabilities across emerging and developed economies alike is now a global public good.

The Tri Hita Karana G20 Bali Global Blended Finance Alliance Dialogue — “Center of Future Knowledge: Sustainable AI for Our Common Future” will convene leaders, policy-makers, development agencies, Big Techs, institutional investors, innovators, academia and NGOs to address the challenges and opportunities presented by AI as a lead-up to COP30 and the 2026 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos.

Jointly hosted by the Tri Hita Karana Forum and the G20 Bali Global Blended Finance Alliance, with knowledge partner United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with Pegasus Capital Advisors, the event provides a neutral platform to align public and private capital, policy frameworks, and innovation ecosystems. Its shared goal: to foster AI-Enabled Sustainable Development as a catalyst for inclusive socio-economic growth, ensuring that the benefits of the AI era are equitably shared while protecting the planet for future generations.

The dialogue will focus on the following key priority areas: