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Microsoft's president used to warn that regulation kills innovation now he wants the government to put some Gerber I was on attack to protect frankly something that is far more important than technology democracy it was here before us it needs to be here and healthy after that story for us analysis of the Democratic presidential debate this afternoon on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from N.P.R. News 332631 K. P.P.S. . From N.P.R. And W.B. You are I'm Peter O'Dowd I'm Femi Oke a it's here and now Democrats met on the debate stage last night in Houston the focus was on Joe Biden sent a state surrounded by ideological opponents Elizabeth Warren Bernie Sanders the candidates for the health care by Does legacy but they were also united especially their attacks against President Tom has come in the high seas addressing the president regularly in her opening statement you spent the last 2 and a half years full time trying to sow hate and division among us as and that is why we've gotten nothing done you have used hate intimidation fear and over 12000 lines as a way to distract from your failed policies and your broken promises for more on the right way joined by Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons Jamal let's start with the big question I saw you were tweeting last night you know extreme compliments but some Twitter analysis but let's take it into the real world who do you think came out on top in this debate. So I think who came out on top in this debate probably. I don't know if the Democratic Party. I don't know thank you for that deep analysis. And I would characterize it that way I think there were nobody failed completely I don't think anybody kind of hit the ball out of the park people have been probably moments I mean I think listen Joe Biden had some pretty tough moments last night that he's going to spend some time having to explain. Castro while he's being beaten up for beating up on Biden I think Castro has proven himself to be a pretty tough fighter in a way that nobody really expected him to be and with Jay pining away seems to be race that is problematic for hand took us through that last night and what did he say Well you know he was asked a question about a 40 year old statement that he made that he doesn't think he owes the black man has starred. You know he has never really explained that state that it was a longer statement than what I just read but it's never really explained that statement and last night he went into some explanation and by that really rambled through a whole series of things including trying to put social workers and African-American households and making kids listen to record players and even C.D.'s to record players in order to get their words up and it ended with something about Venezuelan children it was a really weird moment. And so ready you know that came late a debate it was late at night bait and I don't you know I think it's the questions Castro raised in the beginning about Vice President Biden's forgetfulness or stamina or something were not put to rest by the vice president's performance. Let's talk about something that all of the kind of ACE a paid to be doing which is sharing that personal stories so Elizabeth Warren spoke a couple of times about how she once went to be a teacher for life she dropped out of school at 19 she thought her dream was over until she got a scholarship then she got a job as a special needs teacher but at the end of the 1st year I was visibly pregnant and back in the day that meant the principal said to me oh mom who wished me luck and hired someone else for the jaw so there I am on a home I got a baby I can't have a job when I got to do here's resilience. The law school house a storytelling playing for you Jamal her story Ali has gotten to be so much better when I 1st started hearing Elizabeth Warren a year or 2 ago I thought that she was kind of didactic in profits Oriel and it feels like she's really come into her own and she's much more writing I think as a you know woman from Oklahoma who were to school in Texas then she is a Harvard professor and if I got my count right she may be one of the only 3 or 4 candidates that's really did not go to an Ivy League school which I think is also maybe giving her some power or some part of a touch Bernie Sanders the other one who kind of fits that mold a bit Brooklyn College and I think that is really for the 2 of them they seem to be in touch with the yearning aspiration ready of entire generation of Americans who feel a lot of pain right now I just had a new driver who was talking about being evicted just a few minutes ago Americans are really feeling pain and I think it's not just about going back to some normal that that existed before Donald Trump I think Americans are looking to go back some new normal Everybody has a shot to succeed right Andrew Young didn't get as much time as some of the other candidates on the stage but he use some of it to tell his story to. My own my father grew up on a peanut farm in. With no floor and now his son is running for president that is the immigration story that we have for you. Jim is it just me he seems to be so much stronger now on the debate stage and he was in debate number one he is stronger and listen but the yang gangs as they call themselves online are strong to C.V. And we get a lot of comments from folks who really like Andrew Yang and last night you know you had an idea about giving it $1000.00 money to some of the supporters out there so they can spend that money on the cause they think are important you know I'm not sure if that is legal but it certainly is a very it's a compelling it neat idea that disrupts the status quo and Jamal just to wrap up a very pretty face a Democratic strategist what was the moment on the stage last night that made you smile. That made me smile listen I think when I would sit where I was college years which is a historically black college Ed Harris began talking about be a girls see you that made me smile because here we have 8 B.C. You graduate the very 1st what I could think of that major candidate for president and we were having a debate at it historically black college and I think it's helpful to remember when everyone's was really celebrating Barack Obama last night they were doing that in front of a mostly audience full of people of color we can feel he's smiling right now Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons thank you thank you sir one of the suspects behind a major counterfeit vaporing ring in Could no show Wisconsin is in court today can Ocean County Sheriff David Beth said this week that investigators are checking if there's any connection with the recent spate of lung injuries that have confounded health officials across this nation Voss 6 people hundreds and hundreds have been hurt I'm very curious and we're going to be willing to work with any agency in this country to see if our people here in you know should County have any responsibility and hurting the hundreds of people throughout the United States we're joined now by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigative reporter Raquel Rutledge Rico Welcome thanks for having me and police say this could be one of the largest counterfeit vaporing operations in the country 30025000 cartridges produced every day what else can you tell us about the scale of the bust Yeah well they did a raid on 2 places in kind OSHA last Thursday one was a condominium that was being rented under a fake name and this is where the operation took place and it was in a high end neighborhood and can OSHA and they are they found $30000.00 of it Carter says that were filled with a gram of T.H.C. Each and another nearly $100000.00 of it cartridges that were empty and being ready to be felt and do we know anything about where those cartridges were being sold whether it was a just. Locally on the black market or where they've been shipped out across the country well they're pretty tight lipped about that at this point this is spec they were getting the oil from California they had 57 mason jars filled with this refined T.H.C. Liquid you know they hired 10 people to work this operation where they were taking little syringes and filling these cartridges and then packaging them in labeling that you know counterfeit labeling that you can be gotten online very readily but they weren't tell us how they were distributing yet that's something that's still under investigation whether they were using the mail U.S. Postal system or just strictly on the street it's unclear at this point what else do we know about what chemicals may have been in those cartridges aside from T.H.C. And they also didn't have any more information on that either those mason jars have been sent to a lab for testing so we don't know if they were coming up with anything else and what they might have been coming in with of course the reason this is such a compelling story is that health officials across the country are trying to figure out why hundreds of people have gotten serious lung injuries from V. Being we 6 people have now died and in one of the main suspects that we don't know for sure has been the potential that counterfeit products like this are to blame what did police say about that have they been able to make any kind of connections whatsoever while that something they've called in you know federal officials are trying to meet and you can a connection that they can so you've got F.B.I. C.D.C. F.D.A. Everybody really trying to nail down what specifically is causing these injuries like you said across the country in 30 something States but they don't have not linked that yet but we do know that you know 80 something percent of the people that have been severely injured did report they had vapor with T.H.C. So that does appear to be a likely culprit you know some people have been surprised to learn that there is such a robust counterfeit market for these raping products would can you have any insight into how common this is yeah well I mean that is true people are surprised but it's interesting I mean 2018 was a big year this operation and kind of police. Suspects have been running since January of 2018 and just in April a criminal complaint was filed against 2 other folks in Milwaukee who were running an operation they were making $2000000.00 per month selling these fake cartridges so the underground market is really very robust in states where cannabis is illegal and I mean part of that is because this stuff doesn't smell it's very stealthy and so teenagers and other folks can do it sort of on the sly in Colorado where it's legal I'm told that it's very very small percentage market and those such states OK We'll see how this story fits into the bigger picture of this long injury problem if at all that's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigative reporter Raquel Rutledge Raquel thanks for speaking with us thanks for having me thanks for your interest in the story and you're listening to hear now. 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Bridge dot org It's here and now could small fines help us determine when someone will commit a mass shooting and should it be used to track people with a mental illness that idea is something that the White House is looking into it is controversial and part of the president's a long time focus on mental health to vent mass shootings instead of gun control when one is national correspondent for The Washington Post he's been covering this proposal Welcome thanks for having me so the idea is cool it's safe it stands for stopping a baron's fatal advents by helping overcome mental extremes can you explain how it would actually was the basic idea is use the i Phone The smart watches fit bits echoes in people's homes of people who are mentally ill to kind of monitor very small changes in their voice their body as supposedly use that to detect when they're about to turn violent and you know kill and hurt people there has been criticism of this idea this concept despite their recess Randazzo Can you spell his she isn't a main critique. Right so so she was the chief research scientist for the U.S. Secret Service for for many years and had was looking into precisely this idea you know they have to prevent not just you know assassination attempts but they protect all sorts of high level folks in the government so she was telling me how there's many different flaws of this idea that the biggest one is that mental health is directly connected to mass shootings that is like a flawed premise to explore any kind of research because you know there's been many studies of mass shooters none of them have found like a high level link between mental illness they're measured and they're disturbed individuals there's no question about that but like whether like diagnosable mental illness leads to mass shooters and directly influences that is not a strong link by any means so that's the 1st kind of problem but there's many other problems including the whole idea of predictive violence is a very difficult one and many people have tried different ways at it and found it to be kind of a fool's errand but it also feels like something that might be out of a science fiction novel way to attack kind of checking you out and checking out your mental well being Yeah and there's this whole like when I was talking to researchers there were you know everyone's kind of jokingly bringing up minority report that Tom Cruise movie where yeah there's like pre-crime pre season a diction of I thought he's done the crime you already now act right right and that is like one fundamental kind of problem too there's this idea of like false positives in any kind of research so how do you in order to catch the like needle in the haystack you would have to round up tens of thousands maybe even hundreds of thousands of people and like sort through the excruciating the painful work of like takes a lot of manpower so say you're at a military base there's like 4 or 5. Different things in the sensors that would say oh maybe this person is that risk of committing violence so then you would have to vet every single one to find that one person who might you know and even then how do you know if that person really would become a mass shooter without them becoming a mass shooter it's a difficult maybe even impossible problem to tackle so after the shootings this summer in Texas and Ohio the president sad mental illness and hatred pull the trigger not the gun I'm just wondering if his proposal another way to deflect from Democratic proposals on gun control. I mean it's hard to be in the President's head or in the White House but on the White House is and it gives them some way of saying you know we're coming up with solutions we're bringing things the table that are not you know gun control not N.R.A. Angering kind of things you spoke to Jeffrey Lang he's one of the scientific advises on this proposal and he was quite bullish about the critique of eights explain a little bit more yes or Jeffrey Ling is the lead scientific advisor and so with links that point is that you know the worst you can do is fail failing is where we are already rationing is are continuing unabated you know what's the harm in trying something new he also makes the point that like you know you doing out of the box ideas like this can lead to you know fortuitous other discoveries so say you're trying to solve the mash rooting idea finding people before the Commissioners what you may find is like a technology that helps you prevent suicides is that it is that really failure if you find something else by doing that research when you see a lot of ideas coming out of the White House where do you see this idea about safe home take being out to Judge Mental Health maybe at stop a mass shooting do you feel that this is a credible idea. I have to say you know after talking to experts across many fields technology mental illness psychology. Violence risk assessment it's just riddled with so many problems flaws in logic that I don't know that it could actually work and whether it might actually cause more harm than good if pursued. Well one national correspondent for The Washington Post thanks for speaking with us thanks for having me and visor E. Panel to the Food and Drug Administration is expected to vote today whether it will recommend the approval of power for Zia it's a kind of medical grade peanut flour and proponents of the peanut allergy treatment say it can help by gradually exposing kids to the very food they're allergic to right now just a few hospitals and clinics around the country offer it but it may be on the verge of taking off nationwide Alex Smith from member station K.C. You are reports when Porter hall of Raymore Missouri turned one he was diagnosed with a severe peanut allergy after a bed time snack landed him in the emergency room today Porter who is now 5 is giving peanuts another shot OK that's OK with a senior. At Children's Mercy Hospital in nearby Overland Park Kansas nurse practitioner Jody shrub gives Porter a quick once over in preparation for administering a tiny dose of what's essentially peanut dust today he'll be getting a small increase over the tiny amounts he's been taking regularly for the past few months the treatment is called oral immunotherapy and shrub it says these sessions can be terrifying for kids and their parents yes you see the anxiety they got it and it's like themselves up for that I can do this I can do this or let me know therapy is not a cure for allergies Children's Mercy Dr J. Portnoy explained that gradually increasing exposures are meant to reduce severe reactions by exhausting the immune system of chemicals like histamine that lead to those reactions were creating like little mini reactions that are so small that the patient doesn't notice it occasionally they'll get it out they might get a little bit of stomach ache and then as we increase it they become more and more tolerant of the peanut allergy after 6 months Portnoy says patients may be able to tolerate a few peanuts at a time if they keep the exposures going and a recent Reese. Richer view shows that oral immunotherapy appears to work at least inside clinics where patients can pass food allergy challenges but allergy researcher Dr Derek Chu of McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario who is one of the study's reviewers says things can change after they leave outside the clinic setting they actually have a much higher rate of reactions that's $2.00 to $3.00 times more likely to react to the writer of the dose that they're exposed to join this desensitization procedure compared to avoiding or receiving a placebo instead choose says that outside of clinics factors like exercise hot weather and illness can affect allergic reactions making it more likely for patients to have reactions to peanuts the vast majority of these reactions are mild but children doing the therapy had about a 20 percent chance of having a life threatening allergic reaction compared to about 7 percent doing placebo or avoiding peanut That's according to the research review which appeared in the medical journal The Lancet Chou says that with all of oral immunotherapies costs risks and complications the jury is still out on who might experience an improved quality of life from it what we do need to ask is Is this really ready for I think there are some significant gaps and understanding the value some governesses patients and as well as knowing are we only there for on mass use I'm not saying no I'm not saying yes but I'm saying we need to have a very very robust assessment to know for certain more out Children's Mercy Dr Portnoy says he hasn't seen any reactions more serious than an upset stomach during treatments but he acknowledges that families will need to weigh the risks and benefits for themselves and they were very ready. 5 days after portholes check up the nurse stirs some peanut flour into apple juice now that he's done a few months of oral immunotherapy the 5 year old seems to take it in stride. With plenty of epinephrine nearby he casually sips the solution down and goes back to skimming through a book. That last little bit more. Of it. Recently completed his peanut DOS increases but he'll need to keep taking daily maintenance doses indefinitely that means it will continue to be at higher risk for severe reactions nevertheless Porter's mom Amy says just seeing him get this far has been reassuring it's made me be a little bit more at ease with him being able to eat at other people's houses or you know like when Halloween rolls around you never know what kind of candy they're going to get it makes me feel a little bit more at ease but not 100 percent and if oral immunotherapy grows as proponents of the treatment hope many other families may be when the benefits and risks is well for here and now I'm Alex Smith. 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You are I'm Peter O'Dowd this is here and now China has extended an olive branch in the ongoing trade dispute with the White House China's state news agency said today that Beijing is hitting pause on additional tariffs that were planned for U.S. Agricultural products and yesterday Chinese companies bought 10 boatloads of U.S. Soybeans it was the largest purchaser of its kind in more than a year Robin farms that is host of Public Radio's full disclosure of a local bank Welcome back to Hello sir and earlier this week President Trump announced that he is delaying another scheduled round of tariffs on China these seem like peace offerings ahead of next month's planned trade talks in Washington if that's not right to Peter they are M.S.G. Rich appetising us intended to get Beijing to the table for a long expensive full dinner How's that for better how long have you been thinking about. This kind of like these come to me naturally What are you talking about OK so there's a peace offering an appetizer whatever you want to call it if tensions have thought for now what should expectations for a deal rise at all really though it depends on the day of course I think if you were to study this in a B. School negotiations class you'd 0 in on things that you could do if you're D.C. To put the screws to the other side without hurting your constituents too much here I mean if you look at pork that's China's national protein soybeans not unlike Rice that's an essential food stuff the government needs imports from the U.S. To meet the man so how much could you put temporary pain on the kind of farm belt here for China to feel that this really does feel like a bit of a swerve from earlier in the month when both sides were ratcheted up the tariffs and President Trump was tweeting out that American companies are hereby ordered to find someplace other than China to do business so I mean just tell me more about what you think is behind that strategy now I think on the margin our farm belt is hurting and China at the same time is worried about its pork supply so you have these pressure vet releases amid a broader showdown and Trump seems to be ending this week in a conciliatory mood mood I mean. On the margin he's even willing to discuss incentives for Iran his other big target for economic isolation so that's Trump let's see how he feels on Monday but certainly this is all within the rubric of carrot stick carrot stick and I think I'm out of metaphors and boy's got to feel pretty good though because China has made this significant purchase of soybeans now good news to U.S. Farmers who are important to the president's reelection bid and no doubt but but our agricultural exports to China were still cut in half last year and they've fallen another 20 percent or so to start this year and farmers are struggling in their housing to their representatives in Congress All right more news this week we saw that the U.S. Deficit swelled past the one trillion dollar mark the highest level now in 7 years a lot of economists are blaming President Trump's tax cuts for this as a big reason why this will pass quietly Is anyone concerned well we're not in the know no one's really talking about it the land he's here they're not in the streets yet in fact they haven't been seen for decades if anything you know read the paper today you have companies and local and state governments selling extra long term cheap debt I think this is another form of American exceptionalism people want our debt people want our dollar and now we can be profligate and not get punished for current That's Robin far is that he's host of Public Radio's full disclosure Robin thanks as always have a good weekend you too and you're listening to here in. 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It's here and now the Bahamas could be bad weather a potential tropical cyclone is moving toward them nearly 2 weeks off the high can Dorian that was a consequence 5 storm ravaged the islands parts of Great Abaco Island in Grand Bahama the hardest hit by Dorian Ali to be leveled buildings and to break and at least 50 people have died and 1300 still missing but officials say that number could change as the death toll is expected to rise so for more on this potentially severe weather headed to the Bahamas Let's bring in Jeff Hoffman he's a meteorologist with the Florida Public Radio. Jeff good to have you here this is good afternoon to me 10 chilled tropical cycle and way is it right now well it's pretty much stalled or it's really not even a system yet that has a well defined center so it says kind of this broad area of low pressure in the southeast behind me as it is becoming a bit better organized and I think by tonight or tomorrow it will get officially officially be classified a tropical depression or even a tropical storm Isaac means it's getting some shape that small class and looking shape who needs to be paying attention to this right now well the good news is this is nowhere close to the strength of the of Dorian but unfortunately it is taking somewhat of a similar path and into the northern Bahamas tonight in through tomorrow and then potentially bringing some coastal hazards to Florida and the Carolinas right now the official forecast track and a lot of the models have moved in the direction that keeps the center of this developing storm well offshore not only well off shore Florida but likely far enough away off the shoreline of the Carolinas to prevent a significant impact so we looking at having wings high tides what would you say we should be packed full Yeah well the northwestern Bahamas of course where the areas that were hit from Dorian you know even a afternoon downpour would of course not be good news for some of the recovery efforts there but this is no or no are key. Close to what Dorian produced certainly some heavy rain gusty winds and some higher seas and then in Florida we have a tropical storm watch on the east coast of Florida that means tropical storm conditions are possible Remember that does not mean that they're likely we'll see if that's upgraded over the weekend but I think we're talking maybe 30 to 40 mile an hour wind gusts along the coast some high seas some coastal flooding beach erosion and the rain bands may rotate and at times certainly not a significant event in Florida you know I say for anyone just tuning in just listening how the shit they pay. Well I don't obviously there's a lot of it a lot of anxiety because of Dorian and then of course the last 2 or 3 years we've had very active and direct hits from major hurricanes this one is something I don't think will be significant however we certainly should keep our guard up for other potential hurricanes we're only halfway through the hurricane season yes we still have several more weeks yes several weeks to go with possible activity All right Jeff Hoffman meteorologist with the Florida Public Radio much Network thank you you're welcome now let's head to the Bahamas where we find you Rush had row he's a reporter for the trip being the most nice paper in the Bahamas he joins us from Nassau thank you for joining us it has been 82 weeks in store and devastated the Bahamas at least 70000 people are now homeless and a potential tropical cyclone is on its way how are you preparing right now we're sort of just listening to the news to try and determine what exactly because I expect from this. Stone typically prepare as much as they say until a tropical storm like this progresses to a hurricane so you don't have a lot of people right now going to the soft so or buttoning up windows and the like it's just listening out of the moment see you in the capital where relief efforts staged and how many people do. You know if the county staying in shelters how was that how the operations are running right now so right now we have about 2000 people currently staying in shelters about 3000 or 4000 other displaced residents that have come to the capital or gone to stay with family and friends for the time being the shelters are overcrowded one of the shelters has about 1500 people and up to a couple of days ago the government was still opening new shelters in order to increase the capacity. In the Bahamas this is been such a huge natural disaster it's the must be hard to actually report 20 Have you lost people have you have friends who've lost people can you talk to us about what that is not like I haven't lost friends but I definitely have a very acute sense of what's going on because I was on Arbuckle when the storm struck I had been sent there to cover the storm and I did expect a destructive storm and that would be very damaging for low lying areas that would be very damaging for buildings that were not built to code would we didn't expect was an unprecedented storm of this nature that would destroy so many of the areas that have traditionally held up in the hurricanes that Arbuckle has faced I for instance stayed at the top hotel on Arbuckle the Arbuckle Beach Resort which is where the insurance executives the news media crews top government officials all state and before the 1st half of the hurricane had even ended Will room it was already compromised and we already transitioned from thinking about the story to thinking about our own well being so it's had an impact on me in that sense for sure and it continues to have an impact because those images they stick with you and some people of the scribed it is it's as if the island was lifted up and then dropped down on its head. The conversations that you're having with the survivors see weeks later one of a hike. Very difficult I spoke to survive at a shelter of a 50 year old man who did maintenance work for electrical companies and he told me whenever he has a bomb or a loud noise he gets intimidated I spoke to him to let me fall his friends died in the storm I spoke to a woman who tried to convince me that she lost as many as 30 friends in the storm and she began this thing all of their needs remains incredibly difficult for them I think they are dealing with it the best way that they can most of them look wary and when you go to the shelter there's a certain quietness to it and you can tell people are still processing everything that's happened. As somebody who knows the Bahamas really well this is your home how was the way that your reporting very different from the way that you are seeing outside news agencies reporting on the phone out from Dorian Well right now I would say we'd be getting to transition into a focus on how this is going to impact certain government systems and functions which I don't think is the focus of a lot of the international media for instance this storm has resulted in 10000 children being displaced those children but of began school on Monday but now they are just beginning the process of trying to be placed into a new school on a new island public schools area in the Bahamas especially in Providence they are overcrowded so we are faced with a situation where lots of people are going to have to be in the same classes of upwards of 40 people for instance that's the kind of thing that might not be as relevant to an international media to talk about today the U.N. Secretary general antennae a tad as she is heading to the Bahamas to express his deep solidarity with the people that he talks often about climate change I'm just wondering if in the Bahamas your government is saying that this hard can that can for you that Dorian that is most definitely the power that is most definitely connected to climate change are you talking about in that way. Most affected. Because it's such a. Democratic candidate. Katie B.S. Is supported by Torrey Pines bank offering business banking solutions to small and mid-sized companies through its 7 offices in the greater San Diego area Torrey Pines bank is a division of Western Alliance Bank member f.d.i.c Torrey Pines bank bank on accountability the San Diego State aspects as take football begins conference play on Saturday September 21st at 730 in S.T. Stadium when they host Utah state for the 1st responders Appreciation Day tickets I go as text dot com or at 619283 S. D.S. 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This is here and now the data centers that feed China's appetite for Internet and high speed video streaming are consuming a tremendous amount of electricity according to a new report from Greenpeace and the North China electric power University the buildings that store all that data produced 99000000 metric tons of carbon last year that's equivalent to 21000000 cars and the hidden cost by the way of the Internet is not just a problem in China Benbrook Johnson covers tech for here and now I've been. So we know that cars in airplanes in factories are big polluters but I'm willing to bet that a lot of people don't think about their carbon consumption on the internet so you know tell us what these data centers are doing especially in China there's so hungry for all this energy right so there's a couple of things going on here right number one the movement of everything to the cloud all kinds of information instead of being stored locally on our devices is being stored somewhere else always accessible via the internet that is great for convenience and it helps us in a lot of other ways too like using large datasets to solve problems making our cities our houses smarter etc And of course Netflix ing and chilling So ironically the phrase moving everything to the cloud is a problem for our actual climate right now this is a global problem in estimated 3 to 5 percent of all electricity used globally now is data centers. And that number might sound small but it is comparable to the airline industry but in China when you look at where these data centers are and how they accessed power that runs the data centers a lot of that power is coal and this report really pointed that out and call that out so this report from China says the problem is getting worse there than in 5 years China's data centers will consume as much power as the total amount consumed by Australia in 2018 What does Beijing think about this I mean does the government see this is a problem. Yes You know I think this is a good question I'm not a China environmental policy expert but I will say the government did start a pilot program for green data centers in 2015 right so that seems to signal at least that the government is thinking about this also Ali Baba has launched data centers powered by solar and hydro electric power in the country but while we talk about this data center issue as a problem that feels invisible Beijing's environmental awareness in the last decade has really come from actually a visible impact of its reliance on fossil fuels right the smog of Chinese cities is now legendary and super dangerous and the government is concerned about that which is part of what has led to some pretty legendary solar power innovations in China to the point where it is now surpassed the U.S. In in a lot of clean tech so I do think it is possible that a larger evolution of the government's feelings on environmental responsibility might impact this newer tech sectors data use and to be fair to the Chinese were all very hungry for internet use and yet consumption so how does how the data centers in the U.S. Compare Yes so for a long time the record in the U.S. Was also not great and we are slowly but surely improving on that front Apple now says all of its data centers are powered by clean energy Microsoft is saying it will get to 70 percent by 2023 Amazon is actually way behind about 50 percent by the company has sort of you know written that it wants to improve this number Google and Facebook are also on this they're talking about building data centers in cooler places Finland Sweden moving away from say building them in Nevada which I think gets kind of warm so we should also say that data centers are getting much more efficient at the same time so as they get bigger and more consolidated they can rely on fewer more powerful servers and focus on larger cooling efforts so in some ways we're making strides even as we are creating a bigger problem which is like humanities ammo I guess and when you make a good point I just want to be clear these buildings are doing a lot of. Work they create a lot of energy they put off a lot of energy they get very hot they need to be cooled down by air conditioning units so that's why putting one in Las Vegas for instance is going to take a lot more energy but why do you think those U.S. Companies are making such public steps to do this. So tech companies which we should remember from releasing new devices full of precious metals like every 6 months to contributing to our global consumption of terawatts of power last number I checked was over 400 terawatts of power annually are far from good actors here when it comes to the problem but they are sort of culturally appointed to be pro environment right environmental responsibility fits the brand identities these companies want to project and as large tech companies become more competitive with each other as Apple becomes more of a service company and Google becomes a device company they want to convince users more and more to think of them as somehow different even if they aren't right so corporate responsibility when it comes to climate change is a way to differentiate but also environmental organizations like Greenpeace have really been pushing these companies on this front they give different companies scorecards there's been a lot of advocacy as well from outside of these companies and you know where you see big tech in the U.S. Going on this issue you might see Chinese tech giants follow suit but there's an activism aspect of this to you at least in the U.S. Right about 1000 Amazon workers plan a walk out actually on September 20th to protest the company's failure to address its environmental issues and you might imagine that going down a different way in China fascinating and we saw a statistic that said one Google search is the equivalent of powering a 60 watt lightbulb for 17 seconds so think about that next time you're clicking away and you keep abreast bedrock Johnson covers tech for here and now thanks so much thank you and here it now is a production of N.P.R. 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I know you're saying they don't have to but you're forgetting That's right we'll sort through Thursday night's Democratic debate in Houston Plus we'll get an early view from New Hampshire the 1st in the nation primary state it is the purple this purple states but I tell you what the voters here fed up with Trump and not just Democrats but record numbers of independents and about which is just a week later what's so interesting about Nevada it's the 1st early state that really looks like America also what's up with Democrats and impeachment is politics with Amy Walter from the takeaway right after these headlines. Ly from N.P.R. News in Washington I'm Lori London a House Judiciary panel is requesting e-mails and other documents from some of the biggest U.S. Tech companies N.P.R. Shannen Event Center reports it's part of their investigation into possible antitrust violations Representative David Cicely nee who leads the subcommittee on antitrust called the document request a milestone in the fact gathering process executives named in the request include Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Apple C.E.O. Tim Cook and Google's former leaders Larry Page Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt the request sent to Google it seeks emails from 14 of its senior executives about the company's acquisition of smaller companies Facebook has also been asked for internal documentation of its purchase of Instagram and Whatsapp among other things lawmakers requested that Amazon provide executive communications around product searches on its Web site Shannon Van Sant N.P.R. 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