The Hum
autor: Rowhome Productions
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Data centers are creating monopolies
Data centers are creating monopolies
O tomto podcastu
The Hum is a podcast hosted by Saul Levin about who controls the future, featuring interviews with people fighting the march of AI and data centers into every aspect of our lives.
The show is created in partnership with Rowhome Productions.
Epizody
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- Data centers are creating monopolies · 38 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 10Conflict is brewing in Virginia, the data center capital of the world over a proposal for a merger to create a new utility monopoly. NextEra Energy, a large electric utility in…
- "It was supposed to be housing" · 35 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 9Dekalb County, Georgia community leader Gina Mangham joins The Hum to break down the successful playbook she and her neighbors have developed to notch several wins against big…
- "Not good for nobody" · 39 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 8Pamela Griffin got to know her neighbor Carrie D’Anna when she placed flyers about an incoming data center on Pamela’s front door. The two moms, now friends and leaders in a high…
- “This ton of bricks just fell on us and we do our best” · 36 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 7When Maryland’s governor failed to act on data centers, residents took matters into their own hands. Melissa Emmal of Calvert County, MD and Mike Tidwell of the Chesapeake…
- The Hum Live in Brooklyn at Climate Week · 49 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 6Key elected officials Davante Lewis (Louisiana), Peter Hubbard (Georgia), and Emily Gallagher (New York) chat with Saul live about the challenges, pressures, and opportunities of…
- "There's no adult in this room" · 43 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 5Data centers can’t be understood without looking beyond borders - not a single US AI data center is made entirely with American parts and labor. Former US Trade Representative…
- “Everybody should be filing FOIAS” · 26 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 4University of Michigan PhD student Nathan Kim talks about how he and other students discovered that their university’s proposed AI data center was being built to make weapons of…
- “Children of the Forest Unite” · 31 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 3In Bastrop Texas, 8-year-old twins Oslo and Ivan organized a march against a proposed data center near their school. The twins and their mom Holly call in from their farm to talk…
- Getting Creative: A Menu of Data Center Policy · 31 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 2Katie Thomas, an energy and climate expert who once led Senator Bernie Sanders’ climate team, walks us through example local policies passing on data centers across the US. Katie…
- “Death by a thousand cuts” · 33 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 1Drew Small’s family business running Facebook ads for Nashville musicians from his basement was already being hampered by AI when a data center project was announced in town. We…
- “These sacrifice zones are manufactured” · 36 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 10An interview with Memphis brothers KeShaun Pearson and Rep. Justin J. Pearson Memphis brothers KeShaun and Justin Pearson are community leaders who have become national figures…
- “We’re in a barn with taxidermy on the wall and you’re talking about proposing an AI cryptomining data center” · 41 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 9CRAN Part 2: A conversation with Kayleigh Henry and Chris Sotiro New Jersey CRAN’s youth leaders have been traversing the state, joining each other in hometowns and rural barns…
- “THEY CANCELLED IT” · 34 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 8CRAN Part 1: A conversation with founder Ben Dziobek The Climate Revolution Action Network of New Jersey has grabbed the attention of people all over the country for their huge…
- "We're talking about it because the people are talking about it" · 47 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 7An interview with Michigan candidates Abdul El Sayed and William Lawrence. Abdul El Sayed and William Lawrence are running to represent Michigan in the Senate and House…
- “Everybody is blind to partisan lines:” Indiana’s unifying fight against data centers · 32 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 6Facing a tidal wave of AI data center development and complex corporate takeover in Indiana, residents in all corners of the state have come together to notch stunning victories…
- ‘Ask your auntie, not AI’: How Seminole Nation permanently banned data centers · 1 h 0 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 5The Seminole Nation in Oklahoma has made international headlines with their unanimously passed ban on AI data centers on their lands. Indigenous organizer Ash Nicole Lamont and…
- “What about the air?” · 24 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 4Taylor Frazier McCollum left her job at a beauty salon in Landover, Maryland after seeing a video about a data center. She organized with her clients and neighbors to win a data…
- “I’m in this fight because I love technology” · 31 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 3Kate Brennan of the AI Now Institute is a leading national expert on the rapid development of AI and data centers and a vocal advocate for regular people to have a say in…
- They’ll Pave Paradise Just to Put Up a Data Center · 30 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 2Emily Waldron is a social worker and farmer who harvests trees to become telephone poles in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. In our discussion, we explore the home she loves and…
- The People vs AI · 32 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 1This is the first episode of The Hum! Journalist Andrew Chow’s TIME cover story included conversations with people fighting data centers and AI all over the US. In our…
