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Podcast: Talk of the Bay from KSQD
Episode: Amory Lovins on the Proliferation of Data Centers
Description: This short feature was produced by Daymia Rousseau, Humanities intern from UCSC, with editing help from Rachel Anne Goodman and Howard Feldstein. What follows is the transcript.
Hello, Iām Daymia Rousseau, a UCSC Intern reporting for KSQD. AI data centers are a booming business, and California is one of the leading states in building them. Along with concerns about the environmental costs, critics are saying the financial burden of these energy-hungry facilities falls unfairly on customers. One of its biggest critics is alternative energy expert, Amory Lovins.
Lovins : āIām mightily puzzled why 38 states subsid...