Hey everybody Stephen here. I am so excited to share a new podcast that our production team has been working on over the last few months in collaboration with Google.

It's a six-part series called Where the Internet Lives and it's all about the hidden and fascinating world of data centers.

Most of the stuff we do on our phones and computers

isn't actually taking place on those devices anymore.

They're just windows into these warehouse-sized computers

that are all over the world.

These are the homes of the internet,

and they've democratized supercomputing.

In this series, we go inside these massive Google campuses to learn how they're built, how the technology works, how they're networked, how they're operated, and how they're protected.

And in this episode, which we're about to play for you, we go deep into how Google is trying to get 24-7 clean energy for its data centers,

matching every bit and bite with a zero-carbon electron in real time.

It's a sign of just how far things have come in the world of

clean energy, an example of all the trends we talk about every week on the

energy gang. I learned so much working as executive producer on this series. And if you like what you hear,

go listen to the other five episodes of where the internet lives. You can get all the

subscription links in the show notes or just search for where the internet lives on the podcast app of your choice.

Enjoy the episode.

In the early 90s, stickers started showing up on new appliances like computers,

refrigerators and washing machines. They were label showing how much energy a product consumes.

John Kumi was working on the American version of this label called Energy Star.

It was a fairly new program at the time and John who would later teach at Stanford was

working for a government lab crunching data on the energy use of personal computers

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