Operation Climate16 Feb 2025

S11E1: Tech's Hidden Footprint – Data Centers & ChatGPT

Have you ever wondered how much energy your TikTok scrolling costs? Or what the environmental impacts of ChatGPT are?

Today’s technology boom is undoubtedly reshaping our digital landscape, but the vast amount of physical infrastructure that must accompany new tech development often gets lost in the conversation. And now with the rise of AI, large, energy-intensive data centers are becoming American industry’s “next big thing.”

We unpacked the larger costs of these data centers with Steven Gonzalez Montserrate, a researcher out of MIT and the Goethe University in Germany who studies the cloud and is helping us grapple with the environmental costs of our new digital reality.

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Guest: Steven Gonzalez Montserrate

Hosts: Zoe Kolenovsky, Marie-Hélène Tomé

Reporters: Zoe Kolenovsky, Marie-Hélène Tomé

Audio Editor: Karina Huang

Music Credit: Robots and Aliens by Joel Cummins

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