Tune into the world of data centers
Where the Internet Lives is a Webby Award–winning podcast and mini-documentary series about the fascinating world of data centers. Join us as we venture into places few people ever see firsthand — and learn about the technology, people, and places that make the internet run.
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Season 4, Episode 5
Chasing Arrows
Plastics production has doubled in the last two decades, clogging up our oceans and showing up in our organs....
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Season 4, Episode 4
Invisible Threats
Last March, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California...
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Season 4, Episode 3
Growing a Better Food System
Dwane Roth is a fourth-generation farmer growing corn, wheat, sorghum, and sunflower in southwestern Kansas...
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Season 4, Episode 2
Keeping the Lights On
In January 2024, winter storm Gerri swept across the Midwest, bringing subzero temperatures with it...
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Season 4, Episode 1
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...
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Season 3, Episode 9
Machine Learning Unlocks a New Era for Music
Hanoi Hantrakul is a musician and research scientist who works on audio and artificial intelligence...
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Season 3, Episode 8
A Finnish Paper Town Becomes a Digital Hub
Mikko Green is an operations manager at Google's data center in Hamina, Finland...
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Season 3, Episode 7
From Despair to a Dream Job in the Trades
Sarah Hess is one of a million union workers in the U.S. construction industry...
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Season 3, Episode 6
A Creative Water Solution for a Dutch Data Center
The Netherlands has a unique relationship with water...
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Season 3, Episode 5
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...
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Season 3, Episode 4
From Trauma to Triumph
Data centers are the latest in a long list of big projects that Dave Moody has tackled over three decades running a construction company...
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Season 3, Episode 3
Data Centers Help Fuel the Solar-Energy Boom
A solar-centric world is coming. Solar generates just over 3% of the world's electricity...
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Season 3, Episode 2
From Furniture to Fiber, a Town Changed
Lenoir, North Carolina, was once a global furniture manufacturing hub...
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Season 3, Episode 1
Data Center on the Prairie
In Tennessee, the digital future is merging with the ecological past...
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Season 2, Episode 10
It Gets My Heart Beating
Few people are ever allowed on a data center floor. Andreas van der Linden is one of those people...
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Season 2, Episode 9
Holy Cow, This Is What You Are Building?
Building a data center can be as complex as the machines inside...
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Season 2, Episode 8
A Big Step In Our Journey
Storing photos, taking video calls, or streaming podcasts creates heat...
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Season 2, Episode 7
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 cloud gaming platform Stadia...
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Season 2, Episode 6
The Most Important Things Are Invisible
Each individual server stacked high inside a data center is powerful in its own right...
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Season 2, Episode 5
Challenges Are Expected
Mamoudou “D” Diallo's life path has taken him from being a curious youngster in Guinea-Conakry, to an...
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Season 2, Episode 4
I Never Thought It Would Be Possible
A hyperscale data center can house hundreds of thousands of servers...
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Season 2, Episode 3
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...
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Season 2, Episode 2
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 everything running.
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Season 2, Episode 1
Little Pieces of a Big Puzzle
Data centers aren't just warehouses full of computers...
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Season 1, Episode 6
The Future
For fifty years, computer performance has improved exponentially while the cost of computing has plummeted — but this phenomenal “Moore’s Law” trend has begun to slow down...
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Season 1, Episode 5
What If?
Power outages? Hurricanes? Wildfires? Zombies?
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Season 1, Episode 4
A Quest for 24/7 Clean Energy
What would it take to run data centers on clean electricity, everywhere, every hour of the day?
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Season 1, Episode 3
When the Data Center Came to Town
How do data centers intersect with the communities they call home?
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Season 1, Episode 2
Inside the Walls
Data centers are some of the most secure buildings on the planet...
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Season 1, Episode 1
You Use Data Centers
Nearly 5 billion people use the internet, but how many could tell you where it lives?
