Kai Ryssdal

So people think, as we get into the elevator, people think data center right now in the common parlance, and it's some ginormous building out in the middle of like Virginia or Iowa or something.

That is not this.

Correct.

Compute.

What is that?

You talk about it like it's a living being, which is mildly terrifying.

I'm just saying.

Those hyperscale data centers, the ones being built by AWS and Google and Microsoft, are mostly training AI models.

You want Microsoft Copilot to get better?

Well, that's got to happen somewhere.

It's all Microsoft.

This data center is not that.

The infrastructure of the AI economy is being built by a lot of different companies.

CoreSight is what's called a co-location provider.

All kinds of businesses, banks and social media platforms and hospitals.

It's kind of like an apartment building for computing power.

You do not have here in Los Angeles, certainly a low cost of real estate.

You do not have a low cost of power.

So what's the benefit to being here?

It's easy to forget in this hyper-connected economy of ours that the Internet is basically, and not oversimplifying too terribly much, a series of tubes, a network of cables and wires going all over the planet, under oceans as well, plugging into data centers like this one.