Report published September 29, 2026
Goldman Sachs: NY Climate Week Discussions Remain Focused on Reliability & Resilience
Goldman Sachs · September 29, 2026
Key takeaways from New York Climate Week highlight a pragmatic pivot among investors and corporates toward returns, materiality, and infrastructure reliability. Goldman Sachs identifies multi-year tailwinds for companies enabling grid resilience, water security, automation, and physical climate risk adaptation amid an estimated $800 billion redundancy investment cycle.
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Key Takeaways
- 1.Client conversations at NY Climate Week focused pragmatically on returns and materiality over disclosure, reinforcing the Reliability mega-theme across Power, Water, Supply Chains, Labor, and Networks.
- 2.An estimated $800 billion of investment could occur if public companies raise inventory intensity by 10% and gross fixed asset intensity by 1% to mitigate outage risks.
- 3.Data center buildout faces sequential bottlenecks including turbines, workforce, interconnection delays, and community pushback, driving hyperscalers toward behind-the-meter power and utility-like behavior.
Table of Contents
- GS Special Executive Dialogue on Attracting & Retaining Sustainable Investment
- (1) Data Center bottlenecks remain, even as solutions exist
- (2) Demographic-driven risks and opportunities for labor availability and product demand
- (3) More nuanced assessments of the sustainability costs and benefits of AI
- (4) Moving Adaptation and physical risk from frameworks to deployable, financeable solutions
- Potential beneficiaries of increased redundancy
Report data
Exhibit 1: Maintaining reliable power, water, labor, cybernetworks and supply chains is requiring greater investment - Drivers and Where to Invest for the Reliability Theme — as of September 28, 2026.
| Metric | Estimate | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Corporate redundancy investment potential | 800.0 USD billion | Potential investment resulting from public companies increasing inventory intensity by 10% and gross fixed asset intensity by 1% to mitigate outage risk |
| Global data center power demand growth | 170.0% | Forecasted growth in global data center power demand by 2030 vs 2025, with over 60% driven by the US |
| US skilled trades labor shortfall | 2.0 million people | Shortfall of skilled trades workers acting as a direct impediment to US domestic infrastructure and reindustrialization goals |
| Global natural disaster losses | 260.0 USD billion | Economic losses from global natural disasters cited during NY Climate Week |
| Data center carbon dioxide emissions growth | 210.0% | Expected increase in data center CO2 emissions by 2030 vs 2023 levels net of corporate PPA impact |
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