Jul 12, 2026 · 47 min · 12 segments
AI is changing everything, but few people are talking about the infrastructure making it possible. As artificial intelligence accelerates, data centres are becoming one of the world's most critical…
Tia CollingsGuestSimonHostSoniaHost
And that's because they fundamentally operate completely, well, not completely, but very differently to a normal data center.
So we're going from what used to be maybe five kilowatts to 20 kilowatts on a rack to maybe a thousand kilowatts.
I think there's been a lot of things in the media about data centers and not having social license and I also think there's a huge opportunity for them to have social license and I'm looking forward to getting into that and I think if you've had concerns about data centers taking energy in water, increasing your bills, what impact is it going to have on you, positively and negatively, right? Sometimes it's really easy to see the tangible things, like maybe this is going to take our water, it's going to increase my energy bill.
But what about the intangible things, like how it's going to impact your health care or education or defense or manufacturing.
And so if you're interested in that topic, it's a critical infrastructure, you know, in terms of what it can provide to our society, but also on how it uses critical resources like energy and water.
And that's because they fundamentally operate completely, well, not completely, but very differently to a normal data center.
So we're going from what used to be maybe five kilowatts to 20 kilowatts on a rack to maybe a thousand kilowatts.
I think there's been a lot of things in the media about data centers and not having social license and I also think there's a huge opportunity for them to have social license and I'm looking forward to getting into that and I think if you've had concerns about data centers taking energy in water, increasing your bills, what impact is it going to have on you, positively and negatively, right? Sometimes it's really easy to see the tangible things, like maybe this is going to take our water, it's going to increase my energy bill.
But what about the intangible things, like how it's going to impact your health care or education or defense or manufacturing.
And so if you're interested in that topic, it's a critical infrastructure, you know, in terms of what it can provide to our society, but also on how it uses critical resources like energy and water.
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