Healthcare accounts for 5% of global carbon emissions — roughly the same as the entire country of Russia. Hospitals are being told by grid operators they cannot get any more power. And yet demand keeps growing.In this episode of Health Reimagined, host Jon Myer (Myer Media) sits down with David from Schneider Electric to unpack the energy and infrastructure challenge that doesn’t make healthcare headlines nearly often enough — and why stable, reliable electricity is the foundation that everything else in healthcare is built on.🔗 Learn more at se.com⚡ Cash and carbon — the two forces driving hospitals to rethink energy from rising oil prices consuming 30% of operating budgets to net zero loan conditions from the World Bank and European Central Bank🏗️ 85% of the challenge is in aging brownfield buildings — most hospital estates are decades old, overspecified with redundant transformers, and sitting on embedded carbon that makes demolition no longer an option🔋 Digital twins and AI are unlocking a 70% reduction in energy consumption — connecting siloed clinical and building management data for the first time to find optimizations nobody knew existed🔌 Stable electricity is not an afterthought — it is the non-negotiable foundation of care — no surgeon starts a procedure without absolute confidence the power will hold, and getting a power allocation for a new building can now take seven years⏱️ YouTube Timeline0:00 — Introduction — Energy is the healthcare story that never makes the headlines0:28 — Meet David from Schneider Electric0:30 — Healthcare accounts for 5% of global carbon — the global decarbonization pressure1:36 — Cash and carbon — the two forces making energy impossible to ignore2:26 — Why electricity cannot be hoarded and what that means for hospitals in a crisis3:06 — Grid operators are already at capacity — hospitals told to do more with less3:52 — Proactive vs reactive — how facility managers are finally starting to shift4:05 — Greenfield vs brownfield — why 85% of the work is in old retained estates5:44 — The NHS story — 30% of buildings predate the organization itself6:34 — Embedded carbon in concrete and steel — why demolition is no longer an option7:28 — Digital twins and what-if simulations to unlock hidden energy savings8:41 — Replacing 1970s transformers — the Prius vs muscle car analogy9:38 — Nano grids smart switching and designing hospitals for resilience11:49 — Why the cloud is not fluffy — data centers will generate more carbon than aerospace by 205013:43 — AI connecting siloed clinical and building data for the first time15:25 — Why stable electricity is the non-negotiable foundation of every surgical procedure16:43 — It takes longer to get a power allocation than planning permission for a building18:37 — Closing remarks and where to learn more