Ann Vaughan

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778 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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

So they were built under that, you know, premise that giant amounts of fiber got built in the dot-com era.

There was a whole bunch of it left, you know, didn't get used.

And then we kind of built into that in the 2000s.

And...

in the 2010s.

And when COVID happened, people started using online digital resources like crazy and even more continued to be built.

And so then when ChatGPT and AI as a new paradigm kind of really came on the scene around 2022, there began to be

the conception of a whole nother kind of scale of data center.

So AI data centers are bigger, more power hungry, more resource hungry, really because AI models operate on a scaling,

And so the idea is that it's not just a building with a whole bunch of different companies siloed computing taking place, but instead it is one big campus where all the chips are connected to all the other chips.

And they're all talking to each other, and it's like one big brain.

And the more powerful models that have been trained

have operated on this concept.

And so we're building even bigger ones now.

And they operate altogether big.

That means bigger footprint for these data centers, more industrial equipment to bring them the electricity and to cool them.

And that's why they are basically factories.

It was the issue around the end of 2025 and early 2026.

Yeah.

Yes, there was.

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