Where the Internet Lives
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Where the Internet Lives
An award-winning podcast from Google about the unseen world of data centers.
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The Next Leap for Intelligence
In our season finale, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Google’s founder of the Paradigms of Intelligence (Pi) team, offers a provocative take on what intelligen...
New Frontiers in Farming
In an era of climate instability, two innovators are using AI to reimagine agriculture from the soil up.
Anastasia Volkova, CEO of Regrow Ag, t...
The AI-Energy Nexus
As AI models become more powerful, their appetite for energy is soaring — creating a high-stakes tension between technological progress and sustainabi...
Coding the Future
While educators continue to debate AI’s role in the classroom, one nonprofit is showing just how powerful this technology can be in the hands of young...
Leaps in Logistics
Warehouses have long been “black boxes” where inventory disappears and logistics break down. But autonomous robots are finally illuminating the shadow...
Anatomy of a Modern Data Center
Behind the scenes of the intelligence revolution, data centers are working nonstop to turn ambitious, world-changing AI ideas into real solutions.
Reimagining Manufacturing
Manufacturing has traditionally been defined by rigid assembly lines. But Alphabet’s moonshot spinoff Intrinsic is demonstrating how factories built a...
Supercharging Creativity
The collision of AI and artistry has ignited intense debate about the future of creative work, the value of originality, and what it means to make som...
Mapping New Medicines
Traditional drug discovery is a gamble where 90% of trials fail. But Recursion CEO Chris Gibson is using AI to shift the odds in humanity's favor.
The Era of AI Innovation
AI’s meteoric rise can feel unprecedented, but it follows a familiar story. Just as the steam engine and electric motor rewired entire economies in th...
Season 5: the dawn of a new era
Artificial intelligence is reshaping every corner of the global economy — and none of it is possible without the invisible infrastructure powering it:...
Chasing Arrows
Plastics production has doubled in the last two decades, clogging up our oceans and showing up in our organs. The massive growth in plastics productio...
Invisible Threats
Last March, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. It carried more than 40 payloads on board...
Growing a Better Food System
Dwane Roth is a fourth-generation farmer growing corn, wheat, sorghum, and sunflower in southwestern Kansas. Back in 2016, the state of Kansas launche...
Keeping the Lights On
In January 2024, winter storm Gerri swept across the Midwest, bringing subzero temperatures with it. In Omaha, Nebraska, just as everyone was turning...
Data on Fire
According to NASA, nearly two-thirds of all Western wildfires recorded over the past 75 years occurred in just the last two decades.
Firefighte...
A Preview of Season 4: Resilience
Where the Internet Lives is back for a fourth season.
In past episodes, we’ve taken you on tours of data centers, talked to people who run the...
Machine Learning Unlocks a New Era for Music
Hanoi Hantrakul is a musician and research scientist who works on audio and artificial intelligence. He is a former AI resident at Google working on c...
A Finnish Paper Town Becomes a Digital Hub
Mikko Green is an operations manager at Google's data center in Hamina, Finland. In 2012, when Mikko applied to work at the facility, he was excited a...
From Despair to a Dream Job in the Trades
Sarah Hess is one of a million union workers in the U.S. construction industry. But she’s a rare woman in the field. About 90% of the construction wor...
A Creative Water Solution for a Dutch Data Center
The Netherlands has a unique relationship with water. One-third of the country lies below sea level, and almost 20% of the mainland is water – largely...
The ‘Gaygler’ Fighting for Same-Sex Rights in Taiwan
Ian Yang knew he was gay at an early age. But it wasn’t until arriving at Google that he felt comfortable opening up about his sexuality – eventually...
From Trauma to Triumph
Note: this episode contains references to sexual assault. Please take care while listening.
Data centers are the latest in a long list of big pr...
Data Centers Help Fuel the Solar-Energy Boom
A solar-centric world is coming. Solar generates just over 3% of the world's electricity. By the middle of the century, it could make up nearly 40% of...
From Furniture to Fiber, a Town Changed
Lenoir, North Carolina, was once a global furniture manufacturing hub. For Rachel Scercy, the furniture industry was the center of her family life. An...
Data Center on the Prairie
In Tennessee, the digital future is merging with the ecological past.
Clarksville, where Google has a data center, is home to a fragile ecosyst...
A Preview of Season 3
Where the Internet Lives is back for a third season.
Over the last two seasons, we’ve introduced you to the technologies and people that run da...
“It Gets My Heart Beating”
Few people are ever allowed on a data center floor. Andreas van der Linden is one of those people.
Andreas is a data center technician and the...
“A Big Step In Our Journey”
Storing photos, taking video calls, or streaming podcasts creates heat. To keep servers cool, many data centers utilize water running through pipes a...
“Scale Beyond Our Imagination”
Over the years, Majd Bakar has overseen several critical consumer tech advancements inside Google: Chromecast, GoogleTV, Google Nest Wifi, and the clo...
“The Most Important Things Are Invisible”
Each individual server stacked high inside a data center is powerful in its own right. But without a way of linking them together, they aren't much us...
“Holy Cow, This Is What You Are Building?”
Building a data center can be as complex as the machines inside. It requires teams of construction experts who are constantly solving football field-s...
“Challenges Are Expected”
Mamoudou “D” Diallo's life path has taken him from being a curious youngster in Guinea-Conakry, to an engineering student in Ukraine, to a technology...
“I Never Thought It Would Be Possible”
A hyperscale data center can house hundreds of thousands of servers. All that digital infrastructure requires a vast and intricate set of mechanical s...
“We Know Who’s Here and Why”
People and information are two of the most valuable things inside data centers. Libby Davis helps protect both.
Libby manages security at Google...
“I Feel Like I’ve Seen It All”
Modern data centers are like small cities filled with warehouse-scale computers, bundles of cables and pipes, and colossal equipment to keep everythin...
“Little Pieces of a Big Puzzle”
Data centers aren't just warehouses full of computers. They also contain complex arrangements of power equipment, water treatment facilities, and cool...
Season 2: More Stories About the People Who Run the Internet
Where the Internet Lives is back.
In our second season, host Stephanie Wong explores data centers alongside the folks who actually design, build...
Six: The Future
For fifty years, computer performance has improved exponentially while the cost of computing has plummeted – but this phenomenal “Moore’s Law” trend h...
Five: What If?
We’ll cover the mind-boggling “what-if” scenarios that security experts inside data centers prepare for — all to protect user data and keep the inter...