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Tech Won't Save Us

Why Iran is Attacking Data Centers w/ Sam Biddle

Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx

Politics, Technology, News, Silicon Valley, Paris Marx, Tech Criticism, Arts, Criticism, Future, Tech News, Books, Socialism

4.8701 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Paris Marx is joined by Sam Biddle to discuss what it means for data centers to become targets in a war, and how Silicon Valley is aiding the US war against Iran. Sam Biddle is a technology journalist at The Intercept. Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon. Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code SAVEUS at the link bel...

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0:00.0

And so to switch from Chatsy-B-T to Claude, I think, accomplished nothing and signaled very little,

0:06.9

but it gave people the, at least the approximation of some sort of political act.

0:14.9

But, I mean, it's like switching your business from Lockheed to Raytheon, right?

0:19.2

Like, I don't, there's not that much difference

0:22.9

at the end of the day.

0:43.9

Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us made in partnership with The Nation magazine.

0:46.9

I'm your host, Paris Marks, and I have a great guest for you today.

0:49.1

But first, there's something else we need to talk about.

0:54.0

In April, this month, Tech Won't Save Us turns six years old. It's so hard to believe that I've been

0:55.7

doing the show since April of 2020 back in the early days of the pandemic. And now, you know,

1:01.9

the show has reached, I don't know, tens of thousands of listeners every single week. Who knows

1:08.4

how many of that is cumulatively? It's in the millions. I should have looked up the numbers,

1:12.6

I guess. I've had more than 320 episodes. That means so many interviews with fantastic, insightful

1:20.3

people to help inform you about the tech industry, the impacts of this industry and its products

1:26.3

on society, and how we might think about doing something better, right?

1:30.2

How we might think about challenging this and trying to imagine what a better world could look like and what better technology could look like as well.

1:37.5

I feel like Tech Won't Save Us has achieved a lot over the years.

1:41.0

And I have had so many positive messages from people about the show and about

1:46.0

what it's meant to them and about how it has allowed them to share these episodes with people

1:50.9

to try to get more people to think about technology in the way that we do. And so thank you so much

1:56.0

for listening for all of this time. It's still hard to believe that it has been six years of making this show,

2:03.9

but it wouldn't be possible without all of you, the fantastic listeners.

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