Megan McCarty Carino

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1,015 appearances 32 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 25 May

Megan McCarty Carino’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Marketplace All-in-One · As AI expands, Americans have doubts · 26 Jan 2026 podcast

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.

Let's get inside and see these cabinets.

I hear a vague hum, right?

Is it going to be loud in there?

All right.

Okay, well, that's where we have crack audio engineers on the staff here at Marketplace.

So down a windowless hallway and through a locked door, we walked into a sterile-looking room with rows and rows and then more rows of metal cages.

Oh, and it's hot, too.

The amount of energy coming into this building is enough to power a small town, thousands of homes.

Best guesses are that about a third of the energy that data centers use goes to keeping all these computers cool.

Yeah.

And it's just computers.

These are just all computers running right now.

That's insane.

So fundamentally, you're the landlord, right?

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