Kai Ryssdal

That would mean data centers would be using just shy of 10% of all the power this country consumes inside the next five years.

And as you probably heard, in some parts of the country, wholesale electricity prices have more than doubled because of that increasing demand.

This is going to sound flip and I don't mean it to.

But when people look at data centers writ large, whether it's the hyperscalers or you guys, and they say they're just using up all this electricity, they're using up all this water, they're destroying the planet.

Yeah.

and i'm gonna paraphrase that's the cost of what we want in the internet today

Let's walk down this aisle.

I just want to see what else there is around here.

We saw more cages with computers in them, plus the power room with rows upon rows of battery packs and a whole lot of fluorescent lit hallways.

How do you guys not get lost?

Literally every little hallway, every enter room, every corridor is exactly the same.

Lots of signs.

There's one sign in here.

Corridor number one.

Corridor number two.

My takeaway from this is that...

Cloud is very ephemeral.

Wi-Fi is very ephemeral.

But fundamentally, it's all a bunch of computers hardwired together.

Right?