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S8 Ep1107: Preview for Later Today: Simon Constable discusses the widespread public ignorance regarding data centers. A Wall Street Journal quiz reveals that 25% of Americans admit they know absolutely nothing about this essential technology infrastructure. (2)

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 8 July 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Preview for Later Today: Simon Constable discusses the widespread public ignorance regarding data centers. A Wall Street Journal quiz reveals that 25% of Americans admit they know absolutely nothing about this essential technology infrastructure. (2)
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This is John Batchel, a conversation with my colleague, Simon Constable, who does the quizzes for the Wall Street Journal.

0:36.6

This one about data centers.

0:38.9

We ask questions and give you multiple choices. However, here's the trick. They're really,

0:45.5

really impossible to answer correctly. Simon admits as much. Here we go. Simon, and this one is about

0:52.9

how many people in the United States admit they know zero

0:56.1

nothing about data centers not even know how to spell it d aTA is Simon and me putting the

1:04.5

questions to him wonderful well basically yes when I started doing the research on these questions, because I had to do the research, and I knew nothing, and if I had taken this test, I would have got precisely zero things right. Out of the ten questions, I would have had none. The fact that you got one in the first three is really remarkable. This isn't about giving people a feel-good thing. It's really about getting

1:28.9

people to learn something new in a different way. Now, when you open a newspaper, you want to learn

1:33.9

something, you read the front page and you read the next pages and you learn something. And the idea

1:40.2

for that is this. And it seems to work. And we've got a lot more questions, and they're

1:45.4

tricky. And sometimes I forget the answers that I put in there that were the right ones,

1:50.4

and forget them, you know, in a week later, because I'm working on other stories.

1:55.7

Here we go. Number four, on average, what percentage of Americans say they know nothing about data centers?

2:02.8

Drum roll, please, yes, five possible answers.

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