Where the Internet Lives

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Where the Internet Lives

Where the Internet Lives

יוצר: Google

An award-winning podcast from Google about the unseen world of data centers.

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Chasing Arrows

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...

2024-11-06 04:00:00 00:30:10
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Invisible Threats

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...

2024-10-30 03:00:00 00:35:51
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Growing a Better Food System

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...

2024-10-23 04:00:00 00:35:59
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Keeping the Lights On

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...

2024-10-16 04:00:00 00:39:36
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Data on Fire

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...

2024-10-09 08:32:11 00:40:18
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A Preview of Season 4: Resilience

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...

2024-09-25 04:00:00 00:02:51
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Machine Learning Unlocks a New Era for Music

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...

2023-07-12 03:00:00 00:24:02
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A Finnish Paper Town Becomes a Digital Hub

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...

2023-06-28 03:00:00 00:18:29
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From Despair to a Dream Job in the Trades

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...

2023-06-14 03:00:00 00:18:47
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A Creative Water Solution for a Dutch Data Center

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...

2023-05-31 03:00:00 00:17:13
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The ‘Gaygler’ Fighting for Same-Sex Rights in Taiwan

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...

2023-05-17 03:00:00 00:18:42
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From Trauma to Triumph

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...

2023-05-03 03:00:00 00:17:48
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Data Centers Help Fuel the Solar-Energy Boom

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...

2023-04-19 03:00:00 00:14:02
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From Furniture to Fiber, a Town Changed

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...

2023-04-05 03:00:00 00:15:21
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Data Center on the Prairie

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...

2023-03-22 02:00:00 00:18:11
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A Preview of Season 3

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...

2023-03-01 03:00:00 00:01:00
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“It Gets My Heart Beating”

“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...

2022-01-27 03:00:00 00:10:48
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“A Big Step In Our Journey”

“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...

2022-01-27 03:00:00 00:13:21
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“Scale Beyond Our Imagination”

“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...

2022-01-27 03:00:00 00:13:03
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“The Most Important Things Are Invisible”

“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...

2022-01-27 03:00:00 00:14:59
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“Holy Cow, This Is What You Are Building?”

“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...

2022-01-27 03:00:00 00:11:40
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“Challenges Are Expected”

“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...

2021-12-09 05:02:11 00:14:33
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“I Never Thought It Would Be Possible”

“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...

2021-12-09 05:01:58 00:10:08
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“We Know Who’s Here and Why”

“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...

2021-12-09 05:01:50 00:13:08
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“I Feel Like I’ve Seen It All”

“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...

2021-12-09 05:01:39 00:15:26
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“Little Pieces of a Big Puzzle”

“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...

2021-12-09 05:01:28 00:13:39
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Season 2: More Stories About the People Who Run the Internet

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...

2021-12-06 06:36:45 00:00:48
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Six: The Future

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...

2020-12-09 19:10:01 00:37:01
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Five: What If?

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...

2020-12-09 19:04:59 00:27:04
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Four: A Quest for 24/7 Clean Energy

Four: A Quest for 24/7 Clean Energy

 In this episode, we look at the evolution of data center energy use in a world confronting the threat of climate change – and explore promising ideas...

2020-12-09 18:57:18 00:41:03
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Three: When the Data Center Came to Town

Three: When the Data Center Came to Town

How do data centers intersect with the communities they call home? What kinds of jobs do they create and what do residents think of having a big compu...

2020-12-09 18:52:55 00:41:20
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Two: Inside the Walls

Two: Inside the Walls

Data centers are some of the most secure buildings on the planet. In this episode, we invite you to step inside and take a tour with one of Google’s t...

2020-12-09 18:46:39 00:40:56
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One: You Use Data Centers

One: You Use Data Centers

In our first episode, we explore what data centers are – and how they keep the internet going, even when events like COVID-19 trigger historic surges...

2020-12-09 18:31:05 00:30:10
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Introducing "Where the Internet Lives"

Introducing "Where the Internet Lives"

"Where the Internet Lives" is a new podcast about the unseen world of data centers. 
In this series, we’ll go inside a data center and learn how...

2020-11-20 13:43:19 00:01:09
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