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Could Data Centers Break Our Power Grid? with Andrew Chien

Big Brains by University of Chicago Podcast Network

Mar 6, 202600:37:02Society & Culture

Artificial intelligence may live in “the cloud,” but its footprint is firmly on the ground. As AI systems grow more powerful, the data centers that train and run them are consuming massive amounts of land, water and elec...

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Could Data Centers Break Our Power Grid? with Andrew Chien is an episode from Big Brains by University of Chicago Podcast Network. Artificial intelligence may live in “the cloud,” but its footprint is firmly on the ground. As AI systems gro...

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Published Mar 6, 2026, 00:37:02 long, audio available.