Data on Fire

Data on Fire

Author: Google October 9, 2024 Duration: 40:18
How can AI and data centers help us solve critical climate challenges?

Behind the screen, beneath the apps, and beyond the cloud, there is a physical, humming, and vital world. Where the Internet Lives, an award-winning podcast from Google, ventures into the unseen infrastructure of our digital age. This series explores the data centers, subsea cables, and global networks that form the backbone of modern life. Each episode is a journey into the intersections of technology, business, and culture, examining how these vast systems are built, powered, and secured, and the profound societal questions they raise. You'll hear from the engineers, designers, and thinkers who shape this landscape, uncovering stories of innovation, environmental challenge, and sheer human scale. It’s a documentary-style exploration of the concrete, steel, and fiber optic reality that makes our connected world possible. Tune into this podcast for a revealing look at the architecture of our collective digital existence, understanding not just how information travels, but where it calls home.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 45

Where the Internet Lives
Podcast Episodes
The Next Leap for Intelligence [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:36
In our season finale, Google's Blaise Agüera y Arcas describes a future driven by ever-evolving intelligence, and digs into the logistics of launching data centers into outer space.
New Frontiers in Farming [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:06
Anastasia Volkova, CEO of Regrow Ag, and Brad Zamft, CEO of Heritable Agriculture, are harnessing AI to keep soil and crops resilient in the face of climate change.
The AI-Energy Nexus [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:55
Lucia Tian, Google’s Head of Clean Energy & Decarbonization Technologies, unpacks the wide-ranging solutions that Google is embracing to run completely on carbon-free power by 2030.
Coding the Future [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 17:32
Tara Chklovski, CEO of Technovation, explains how the global organization empowers girls use AI to solve real-world problems. We also hear from Aarvi Khandelwal, a 12-year-old alumna of the program, about a natural-disas…
Leaps in Logistics [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:34
Oana Jinga, co-founder of Dexory, explains how AI has enabled her company's robots -- the world's tallest -- to shine light on the warehouses that keep the global economy running, including Google's own data center wareh…
Anatomy of a Modern Data Center [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:12
Partha Ranganathan — one of the architects of modern data center design -- explains how Google's data centers have embraced efficiency to power some extraordinary solutions to the world's biggest problems.
Reimagining Manufacturing [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:58
Wendy Tan White, CEO of Intrinsic, explains how the company is embracing AI to make manufacturing more accessible, customizable, and safer.
Supercharging Creativity [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:41
Multimedia artist King Willonious discusses his creative process, including the story behind his AI-generated hit song "BBL Drizzy." And Mira Lane, Google’s VP of Technology and Society, digs into the opportunities and q…
Mapping New Medicines [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:40
Recursion CEO Chris Gibson explains how the company combines high-tech lab experiments with advanced computing to map the world of human biology and fuel a renaissance in drug discovery.
The Era of AI Innovation [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:25
MIT professor and author Andrew McAfee draws the throughline from early industrial revolutions to the AI revolution unfolding today.