Stepchange Teaser: Data Centers

About this episode

This episode is a teaser about data centers and their significant electricity usage.

✨ Special teaser from the Stepchange Show. Details here . ✨ 🎧 Listen to the full episode: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Substack Any other podcast player search: ‘Stepchange’ Today’s Climate Papa episode is a quick teaser from my other project, The Stepchange Show . Anay and I spent months digging into the hidden backbone of our modern world: data centers . These warehouses of machines quietly power everything from your email to AI — and now use more electricity than some countries. This short preview pulls back the curtain. If it sparks your curiosity, head to the full episode on the Stepchange Show through the links above .

People in this episode

Host: Ben Eidelson

Topics covered

• data centers
• electricity consumption
• technology
• AI
• modern infrastructure

Keywords

• data centers
• electricity
• AI
• technology
• infrastructure

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Substack

Books & works: The Stepchange Show

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