ep121: Hyperscale Data Centers + Palestinian Comedian Kokym

Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us.

I am your host, Paris Marks, and this month, September 2026, we are doing something a little bit different.

As you might know, or maybe don't know, I have a new book coming out in October called Hyperscale, The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires.

This is a book that really digs into the build out of data centers that we've been seeing over the past few years, you know, driven in part by generative AI, and certainly the consequences that have come of that for the climate, but also for communities across the United States and around the world.

As more and more of these data centers have been being built, we're seeing more and more people push back against them because of the real costs that come with building these next to communities, next to neighborhoods, next to people.

And the book really digs into that, why we're seeing that happen, who is being affected by it, and whether this is a future that we have to accept and whether we can do something very different.

I think it's a book that really meets the moment, right? As we're seeing all of this opposition to data centers growing, it's almost wild that my book is being published right as all this happens.

Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us.

I am your host, Paris Marks, and this month, September 2026, we are doing something a little bit different.

As you might know, or maybe don't know, I have a new book coming out in October called Hyperscale, The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires.

This is a book that really digs into the build out of data centers that we've been seeing over the past few years, you know, driven in part by generative AI, and certainly the consequences that have come of that for the climate, but also for communities across the United States and around the world.

As more and more of these data centers have been being built, we're seeing more and more people push back against them because of the real costs that come with building these next to communities, next to neighborhoods, next to people.

And the book really digs into that, why we're seeing that happen, who is being affected by it, and whether this is a future that we have to accept and whether we can do something very different.

I think it's a book that really meets the moment, right? As we're seeing all of this opposition to data centers growing, it's almost wild that my book is being published right as all this happens.