Rory Stewart

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22,825 appearances 85 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 9 Sep

Rory Stewart’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Rest Is Politics · 558. The 'Cockroach' Uprising and Should We Stop Data Centres? · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

And it's going to be really tough politics. voice-verified

The basic answer to the question is we really don't have any alternative other than to build these data centres. voice-verified

And you just got to work back from that. voice-verified

We can have a really good conversation. voice-verified

about how we produce the electricity for them and where we site them. voice-verified

It's completely true. voice-verified

They use a lot of electricity. voice-verified

They use a lot of water. voice-verified

And you've got to be very smart about where you put them and how you run them. voice-verified

But we cannot not build them. voice-verified

Cannot not build them. voice-verified

Why? voice-verified

Because the foundation models, these large language models... voice-verified

are going to be right at the heart of all our intelligence gathering around the world. voice-verified

They're going to be the heart of all our defense systems, right? voice-verified

The whole future of warfare, all our military is going to run on these things. voice-verified

Our public services are going to run on these things. voice-verified

And if we find ourselves in a world in which we don't have the data centers, and if you don't have the data centers, you don't have the chips, you don't have the weights, you're not hosting these things. voice-verified

You're going to be in a situation where the complete foundation of everything in our lives, the way our companies work, the way our government works, where defense works, is dependent on chips, data centers, and models hosted only in the US and China. voice-verified

And what does that mean? voice-verified

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