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Engadget Podcast: Hunting data center vampires with Paris Marx

We chat about how data centers suck up vast amounts of power, water and other resources, and why the AI boom is exacerbating those issues.

Personally, I do think we kind of made a mistake by just completely giving up on the idea of it like decades ago, because what that ultimately led to was far more of a reliance on coal power plants and then eventually natural gas. I was like, okay, let's look into this again So I started looking into it this week and then literally yesterday, Wednesday, October 9th They announced that DeepMind founders and and higher ups won the Nobel Prize for protein folding. So this is really interesting I hope to get someone to talk really knowledgeably about this on sometime soon The prize was Demis Hasis John Jumper, and then a guy who is a professor at the University of Washington who has done similar work with like machine learning, figuring out protein folding, the, these,

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