Associate Dean Daryl Lim discusses AI data centers on Korean radio

CARLISLE, PA—Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Partnerships Daryl Lim recently appeared as a featured guest on “Morning Wave in Busan (BeFM),” an international radio program based in Busan, South Korea, to discuss the growing global debate over data center expansion and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. During the live interview, he offered legal and policy insights on the environmental, economic, and governance implications of efforts to slow or regulate data center construction in the United States. You can watch Lim’s appearance by clicking here.

Drawing on his expertise in intellectual property, technology law, antitrust, and AI governance, Lim analyzed the policy tensions surrounding the rapid expansion of data centers that power artificial intelligence systems. He addressed issues including electricity demand, water usage, environmental sustainability, consumer cost allocation, national competitiveness, and the broader regulatory challenges posed by frontier AI development.

“Morning Wave in Busan” is a prominent English-language broadcast program on BeFM in Busan, South Korea, with an international audience. The segment focused on the intensifying policy debate over whether governments should slow the expansion of AI-related data center infrastructure, including recent U.S. legislative proposals and comparative international approaches. Lim’s commentary placed these developments within a broader global governance context, drawing on comparative perspectives from Australia and other jurisdictions.

Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He is also the Associate Dean for Research & Strategic Partnerships and Founding Director of the Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Innovation Initiative. At the university level, he is a co-hire at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences and an affiliate at the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence.

Professor Lim is an award-winning author, observer, and commentator on national and global trends in IP and competition policy and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. He helps policymakers, attorneys, corporate counsel, scholars, and the public understand the world around them. He is a founding member of the Global IP Alliance and its local chapters in Pennsylvania and Illinois. In addition, he serves as Co-Chair of the University Education Committee in the US IP Alliance.

In December 2022, the American Law Institute elected Professor Lim to its membership based on demonstrated excellence and outstanding professional achievement. In 2023, the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission recognized him as “a leading expert in antitrust law and economics” and the IAM Strategy 300, a guide to the industry pioneers with “exceptional skill sets, as well as profound insights into the development, creation, and management of IP value,” named him to its World’s Leading IP Strategists 2023 list. In 2024, he was appointed to the consultative group advising the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence. In 2025, he received the IP Professor of the Year Award at the Global Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence & Technology Conclave & Awards.