The Era of AI Innovation

The Era of AI Innovation

Author: Google January 7, 2026 Duration: 27:25
MIT professor and author Andrew McAfee draws the throughline from early industrial revolutions to the AI revolution unfolding today.

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
From Trauma to Triumph [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 17:48
Data centers are the latest in a long list of big projects that Dave Moody has tackled over three decades running a construction company.
Data Centers Help Fuel the Solar-Energy Boom [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 14:02
As the digital tools behind solar get more sophisticated, data centers have the potential to be the backbone of the clean energy economy.
From Furniture to Fiber, a Town Changed [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:21
Today, communities like Lenoir are often seen as great sites for data centers because of their strong industrial histories.
Data Center on the Prairie [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 18:11
In Tennessee, the digital future is merging with the ecological past.
A Preview of Season 3 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00
This season we explore how data centers change the world around them.
“It Gets My Heart Beating” [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:48
Andreas van der Linden is a data center technician at Google's data center in the Netherlands.