Episode 133: What's the Environmental Cost of AI? (with Andy Masley)
Andy Masley joins Yoel and Mickey to talk about a claim that's made him (in)famous: using AI chatbots doesn't meaningfully affect your carbon footprint or water usage. We discuss what data centers actually do with water, why "ten times a Google search" is not a useful metric, and why people really…
Inside the Towns Saying Hell No to AI Data Centers w/ Jasmine Sun
Small towns across America are revolting against massive AI data centers.
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Jasmine Sun on the data center backlash
Nothing about data centers changed much this year — except the country’s mood. To find out why, the independent journalist Jasmine Sun traveled to the sites of proposed and completed data centers in Wisconsin and Michigan. The best clue came from an official in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. He told J…
The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is Here
The “Hard Fork” team is away this week. But while we’re away, we’re bringing you a recent episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”
In this episode, Ezra talks with the journalist Jasmine Sun about her recent reporting trip through the Midwest, where she explored how the data center backlash is playing ou…
ModelTalk: Pacing the Frontier
ModelTalk regulars Nathan Lambert, who writes Interconnects, and writer Jasmine Sun join to work through a week in which Dario asked the industry to slow down and Trump called the whole thing a conspiracy.
Why the Hugging Face hack broke through where years of extinction talk didn’t, and how…
Simplify EXTRA: The Human Premium
Why do commencement speeches suck so often? That's easy. They suck when the speaker is out of touch with their audience - new graduates. That's why legendary ones like from David Foster Wallace and George Saunders and Steve Jobs are so good, because they balance personal experience in a way that c…
Simplify EXTRA: The Human Premium
Why do commencement speeches suck so often? That's easy. They suck when the speaker is out of touch with their audience - new graduates. That's why legendary ones like from David Foster Wallace and George Saunders and Steve Jobs are so good, because they balance personal experience in a way that c…
Why Human Creativity?
Young people say they feel chained to AI. They use it because everyone else does, but they're worried about what it's costing them. Their biggest fear? It's making them dumber.
Can AI be creative? And what happens to ours when we hand it over?
Hosts Adam Dodge (CEO of EndTAB) and Sloan Thompson (D…
Unpacking the Data Center Backlash with Jasmine Sun
AI data centers have become a flashpoint for policymakers across the country in the leadup to midterm elections, with polls showing that seven in 10 Americans oppose new data center construction in their local area. In this episode of the AI Policy Podcast, Wadhwani AI Center director Aalok Mehta …
Kevin Roose on how AGI went from pipe dream to roadmap
I’ve known former New York Times reporter Kevin Roose since 2017, when we rode a bus into the California desert to try out Waymo’s early driverless cars. Now he has a new book called The AGI Chronicles about the rise of today’s leading AI labs. He also just launched a podcast with Casey Newton cal…
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