Sherelle Dorsey

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No traces of life.

Instead, this building houses rows and rows of servers stretching ceiling to floor, cooled by enough water to serve thousands of homes.

It pulls power from the grid 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

And every time you run an AI query, stream a movie, or send a message to a friend, that building wakes up a little more.

Lately, more and more of us have been waking up to an uncomfortable truth.

The cloud isn't just an intangible product of the digital age.

In fact, the cloud has an address, which means it has neighbors.

And it's time we meet them.

This is TED Tech, a podcast from TED.

I'm your host, Sherelle Dorsey.

We talk a lot about AI here on TED Tech, but this month we're looking at the physical house AI lives in, the data center.

Data centers have been around as long as the Internet itself, but they've never garnered this much attention or this much controversy.

We've seen the headlines.

Your neighborhood data center will impact your electric grid, your water system, your utility bill.

And yet, with the rise of AI, this is what it takes to maintain the technology that has made an irreversible impact on the way we live and work.

even as the cost gets heavier and heavier.

This is a story about AI infrastructure.

But really, it's a story about who decides the price of innovation and who ends up paying it.

This month, TED Tech is traveling across the country to learn about what's happening on the ground as data centers expand, entering more communities.

We'll look at power, literally and figuratively.

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