Oliver Barnes
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165 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jun
Oliver Barnes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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debate that's unfolding in the US.
Well, I think because it seems like a bit of a lose-lose, right?
Doesn't it?
It's like, on the one hand, AI isn't what it stacks up to be, and then we're in a huge bubble, and the market comes crashing down.
On the other hand, AI does stack up to what it's meant to be.
And you're fired.
And none of us have a job left.
And then meanwhile, like your beautiful pastoral view out your back window has turned into this like huge, large, worrying shed.
Absolutely.
A desktop computer.
And it's funny because before we broke this deal, like I didn't even know about data center alley.
There's this town in northern Virginia called Ashburn where there's like 150 data centers.
Can you imagine?
There's only 50,000 residents.
I mean, there's something so like kind of Martian and soulless about the idea of living in a town full of data centers.
We're completely objective on it.
But I think that there is a degree of empire building here from John Ketchum, who's the CEO of NextEra.
And this is kind of quite an extraordinary pivot from a few years ago, where really they were just being subsidized so much by the Biden administration.
And now they're pushing in to a whole new territory, right?
Yeah.
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