Washington. Why quincy, washington . Guest my coauthor and i chose quincy, washington because its one of the data center capitals of the world, if you will. Its near the Columbia River and data centers are being built there because its close to hydroelectric power in both cheap and clean. We take the reader on a tour of if you will, of what is becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century and these mammoth buildings more than 20 of them filled with Electrical Generators and hundreds or thousands of batteries but of course, mostly Server Computers and everything we do in almost every day is accessing or storing our data in the cloud and it means one of those data centers. Host you have 100 of these in 20 countries, is that correct . Guest more than 20 countries, more than a hundred data centers and microsoft is one of the largest but Companies Like google and amazon, facebook and apple were all building more and more of these data centers and it is where we are storing our data and th
President , what is the premise of your new book . It is that Digital Technology has become both a tool and a weapon, creating kinds of benefits and all kinds of challenges as well, and we have to grapple with both sides of the equation. Your book is essentially a world tour that begins in quincy, washington. Why . Because it is one of the data center capitals of the world, if you will. It is near the columbia river. Data centers are being built there because it is close to hydroelectric power that is cheap and clean. We take the reader on a tour of what is becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century, these mammoth buildings, more than 20 of them, filled with electrical generators, thousands of batteries, and mostly server computers. Everything we do almost every day is accessing or storing our data in the cloud, which really means one of these data centers. Peter you have 100 of these in 20 countries . Brad more than 20 countries, more than 100 data centers. Microsoft is one of th
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Massachusetts amherst and formerly a professor of economics at yale and the new school among others hes also the founder of democracy at work and host of economic update on you tube and they have a very interesting conversation about workers strikes then i go into aggressive policing and rejected correspondent enters lee does some Fact Checking on voting but 1st lets go to that discussion between camp and richard will professor wofl you so much for joining me. My pleasure me glad to be here i dont know anyone better than you to diagnose the problems right now or looking at an economic crisis possibly 30 percent Unemployed People thought for an across the country and around the world if only someone had told us that such a crisis might happen if only there had been some kind of warning signs but instead no one could see that capitalism would have such a problem is that right. Well is a fuel cost but basically youre right the consensus was that we were doing really pretty well the presid