Where the Internet Lives

Hanoi Hantrakul is a former AI resident at Google working on creative applications of machine learning for music.

Mikko Green is an operations manager at Google's data center in Hamina, Finland.

Oregon Tradeswomen is an organization devoted to helping women like Sarah Hess build careers in construction, manufacturing, mechanical, and utility trades.

Google partnered with North Water, a Dutch water treatment company, to harness water from a network of canals to cool its data center.

Ian is an operations engineer at Google’s data center in Changhua County, Taiwan.

Data centers are the latest in a long list of big projects that Dave Moody has tackled over three decades running a construction company.

As the digital tools behind solar get more sophisticated, data centers have the potential to be the backbone of the clean energy economy.

Today, communities like Lenoir are often seen as great sites for data centers because of their strong industrial histories.

In Tennessee, the digital future is merging with the ecological past.

This season we explore how data centers change the world around them.