Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive

It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist,

I was flying for the Navy.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

It was the cold war, and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.

Today, though, there's another threat out there, climate change.

This could be the warmest year on record.

Climate change is here.

Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

And while the threat seems new,

the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.

I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.

This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis

to see how the military is preparing for the threat.

Listen to how we survive,

wherever you get your podcasts.

There's a power struggle between crypto and AI.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCurdy Corino. All those data centers need a lot of data centers to run and those data centers need a lot of energy.

One estimate from the Electric Power Research Institute suggests that current data center

electricity consumption in the US will more than double by 2030, making up about 9% of all energy use.

But the AI sector is coming up against the big energy-hungry tech innovation of yester year, crypto mining.

Reuters reporter Lala Kearney has been following the scramble to power up in both

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