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A podcast from Google about the unseen world of data centers
In our season finale, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Google’s founder of the Paradigms of Intelligence (Pi) team, offers a provocative take on what...
In an era of climate instability, two innovators are using AI to reimagine agriculture from the soil up. Anastasia Volkova, CEO of Regrow Ag...
As AI models become more powerful, their appetite for energy is soaring — creating a high-stakes tension between technological progress and...
While educators continue to debate AI’s role in the classroom, one nonprofit is showing just how powerful this technology can be in the hand...
Warehouses have long been “black boxes” where inventory disappears and logistics break down. But autonomous robots are finally illuminating...
Behind the scenes of the intelligence revolution, data centers are working nonstop to turn ambitious, world-changing AI ideas into real solu...
Manufacturing has traditionally been defined by rigid assembly lines. But Alphabet’s moonshot spinoff Intrinsic is demonstrating how factori...
The collision of AI and artistry has ignited intense debate about the future of creative work, the value of originality, and what it means t...
Traditional drug discovery is a gamble where 90% of trials fail. But Recursion CEO Chris Gibson is using AI to shift the odds in humanity's...
AI’s meteoric rise can feel unprecedented, but it follows a familiar story. Just as the steam engine and electric motor rewired entire econo...
Artificial intelligence is reshaping every corner of the global economy — and none of it is possible without the invisible infrastructure po...
Plastics production has doubled in the last two decades, clogging up our oceans and showing up in our organs. The massive growth in plastics...
Last March, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. It carried more than 40 payload...
Dwane Roth is a fourth-generation farmer growing corn, wheat, sorghum, and sunflower in southwestern Kansas. Back in 2016, the state of Kans...
In January 2024, winter storm Gerri swept across the Midwest, bringing subzero temperatures with it. In Omaha, Nebraska, just as everyone wa...
According to NASA, nearly two-thirds of all Western wildfires recorded over the past 75 years occurred in just the last two decades. Firefig...
Where the Internet Lives is back for a fourth season. In past episodes, we’ve taken you on tours of data centers, talked to people who run t...
Hanoi Hantrakul is a musician and research scientist who works on audio and artificial intelligence. He is a former AI resident at Google wo...
Mikko Green is an operations manager at Google's data center in Hamina, Finland. In 2012, when Mikko applied to work at the facility, he was...
Sarah Hess is one of a million union workers in the U.S. construction industry. But she’s a rare woman in the field. About 90% of the constr...
The Netherlands has a unique relationship with water. One-third of the country lies below sea level, and almost 20% of the mainland is water...
Ian Yang knew he was gay at an early age. But it wasn’t until arriving at Google that he felt comfortable opening up about his sexuality – e...
Note: this episode contains references to sexual assault. Please take care while listening. Data centers are the latest in a long list of bi...
A solar-centric world is coming. Solar generates just over 3% of the world's electricity. By the middle of the century, it could make up nea...
Lenoir, North Carolina, was once a global furniture manufacturing hub. For Rachel Scercy, the furniture industry was the center of her famil...
In Tennessee, the digital future is merging with the ecological past. Clarksville, where Google has a data center, is home to a fragile ecos...
Where the Internet Lives is back for a third season. Over the last two seasons, we’ve introduced you to the technologies and people that run...
Storing photos, taking video calls, or streaming podcasts creates heat. To keep servers cool, many data centers utilize water running throug...
Building a data center can be as complex as the machines inside. It requires teams of construction experts who are constantly solving footba...
Few people are ever allowed on a data center floor. Andreas van der Linden is one of those people. Andreas is a data center technician and t...
Over the years, Majd Bakar has overseen several critical consumer tech advancements inside Google: Chromecast, GoogleTV, Google Nest Wifi, a...
Each individual server stacked high inside a data center is powerful in its own right. But without a way of linking them together, they aren...
Mamoudou “D” Diallo's life path has taken him from being a curious youngster in Guinea-Conakry, to an engineering student in Ukraine, to a t...
A hyperscale data center can house hundreds of thousands of servers. All that digital infrastructure requires a vast and intricate set of me...
People and information are two of the most valuable things inside data centers. Libby Davis helps protect both. Libby manages security at Go...
Modern data centers are like small cities filled with warehouse-scale computers, bundles of cables and pipes, and colossal equipment to keep...
Data centers aren't just warehouses full of computers. They also contain complex arrangements of power equipment, water treatment facilities...
Where the Internet Lives is back. In our second season, host Stephanie Wong explores data centers alongside the folks who actually design, b...
For fifty years, computer performance has improved exponentially while the cost of computing has plummeted – but this phenomenal “Moore’s La...
We’ll cover the mind-boggling “what-if” scenarios that security experts inside data centers prepare for — all to protect user data and keep...
In this episode, we look at the evolution of data center energy use in a world confronting the threat of climate change – and explore promis...
How do data centers intersect with the communities they call home? What kinds of jobs do they create and what do residents think of having a...
Data centers are some of the most secure buildings on the planet. In this episode, we invite you to step inside and take a tour with one of...
In our first episode, we explore what data centers are – and how they keep the internet going, even when events like COVID-19 trigger histor...
"Where the Internet Lives" is a new podcast about the unseen world of data centers. In this series, we’ll go inside a data center and learn...