Ann Vaughan

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 902: The Pros, Cons, and Complications of Data Centers · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

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Eventually, some of those got bigger.

And of course, since, you know, for decades, we've had government supercomputers that were far bigger than that.

But this idea of a data center that started to grow commercially came with the rise of the internet.

These buildings, you know, would

serve a variety of different customers.

And the notion of these big tech software companies becoming cloud giants really meant that Google, Microsoft, Amazon, they began to build buildings with rows, hallways of chips and servers and all the equipment that keeps them at this Goldilocks environment and temperature.

And fiber would go in and out and data would, you know, it was very important to have data have what is called low latency.

So they tended to be in urban centers and

Low latency means quick.

Remember the days when you would try to watch a video and it would say buffering, buffering?

Yeah, that's low latency.

And so you need instantaneous data for something life-saving, like an emergency response system.

Traders want instantaneous data.

We get upset if a text doesn't come through right away.

There are certain businesses that really are mission critical and that need to be near a city.

So a lot of data centers got built in smaller fashion before the AI age in especially Northern Virginia near Washington, DC, and then some big cities like Dallas, Chicago, Phoenix, out on the West Coast and both the Silicon Valley area and then up in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle.

Yes, because there's a limit to how quickly data will travel on fiber.

And we're talking, you know, just nanoseconds.

We're not talking, you know, we're really unwilling to wait for a few seconds for something to come through.

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