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....

Season 4, Episode 4

Invisible Threats

Last March, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California...

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...

Season 4, Episode 2

Keeping the Lights On

In January 2024, winter storm Gerri swept across the Midwest, bringing subzero temperatures with it...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Season 3, Episode 6

A Creative Water Solution for a Dutch Data Center

The Netherlands has a unique relationship with water...

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...

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...

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...

Season 3, Episode 2

From Furniture to Fiber, a Town Changed

Lenoir, North Carolina, was once a global furniture manufacturing hub...

Season 3, Episode 1

Data Center on the Prairie

In Tennessee, the digital future is merging with the ecological past...

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...

Season 2, Episode 9

Holy Cow, This Is What You Are Building?

Building a data center can be as complex as the machines inside...

Season 2, Episode 8

A Big Step In Our Journey

Storing photos, taking video calls, or streaming podcasts creates heat...

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...

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...

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...

Season 2, Episode 4

I Never Thought It Would Be Possible

A hyperscale data center can house hundreds of thousands of servers...

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...

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.

Season 2, Episode 1

Little Pieces of a Big Puzzle

Data centers aren't just warehouses full of computers...

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...

Season 1, Episode 5

What If?

Power outages? Hurricanes? Wildfires? Zombies?

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?

Season 1, Episode 3

When the Data Center Came to Town

How do data centers intersect with the communities they call home?

Season 1, Episode 2

Inside the Walls

Data centers are some of the most secure buildings on the planet...

Season 1, Episode 1

You Use Data Centers

Nearly 5 billion people use the internet, but how many could tell you where it lives?