From the first shovel to the first server.
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Eric Sonner and Lance Teel sit down with the people who plan, power, cool, and build AI data centers.
Dirt, power, cooling, data.
Every episode sits somewhere on this line. The show follows the buildout in the order it happens on the ground.
Dirt
Land, permits, the county meeting, and the first excavator on site.
Power
Grid interconnects, gas, microreactors, and the deals that decide where things get built.
Cooling
Air, liquid, water loops, and the commissioning that proves it all works.
Data
Racks in, GPUs on, and the people who keep it running.
Six systems. One question: what does it take?
Every conversation maps to one of the six systems a data center depends on.
Energy
Where the megawatts come from. Grid interconnection, generation, and the power deals that decide where facilities get built.
Water
Consumption, reuse, and the honest math of water. What facilities draw, and what they give back.
Cooling
Air, liquid, and everything between. How heat gets moved at scale, and why cooling design makes or breaks a data hall.
Environment
Emissions, land, noise, and stewardship. What responsible development looks like when the buildout is measured in gigawatts.
Jobs
The trades, technicians, and engineers behind the buildout. The careers being created and the workforce it still needs.
Community
Tax base, schools, roads, and trust. What a data center means for the town next door, told by the people who live there.
Hosted by Eric Sonner and Lance Teel
Eric and Lance are joined by the developers, engineers, utility leaders, and local officials shaping the buildout. Here are the most recent guests.
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