MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society's Cloud Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate on his article, "The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage." "Rotten History" and some correspondence from listeners follow the interview.

Check out Steven's article here: https://sts-program.mit.edu/news/mit-serc-case-study-the-cloud-is-material-on-the-environmental-impacts-of-computation-and-data-storage-by-steven-gonzalez-monserrate-mit-hasts-graduate-student/

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The Cloud is Material and Impacts the Environment / Steven Gonzalez Monserrate

In this week’s episode, host Kristin Hayes talks with Daniel Poneman, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Energy, about the role of nuclear energy in meeting increasing demands for electricity. As the use of artificial intelligence grows, so does demand for electricity, raising questions about which energy sources can provide reliable, clean, consistent power. Poneman discusses whether nuclear energy is a viable option, how the safety and performance of nuclear technology have evolved, and why some retired nuclear power plants are being revived—including the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, where a reactor meltdown caused by equipment malfunctions occurred 46 years ago as of last Friday. Poneman also describes what challenges the nuclear energy industry is facing, barriers to wider adoption of nuclear energy, and how public perception of nuclear energy has shifted over time.

References and recommendations:

“Double Jeopardy: Combating Nuclear Terror and Climate Change” by Daniel Poneman; https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546669/double-jeopardy/

“Washington: A Life” by Ron Chernow; https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/ron-chernow

“Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin; https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Team-of-Rivals/Doris-Kearns-Goodwin/9780743270755

“Speed of Heat” album by Jeff “Skunk” Baxter; https://open.spotify.com/album/6t5FAhdwvsYFRejUTRAzVZ

Henry M. Paulson Jr.’s writings about biodiversity; https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/opinion/animal-extinction.html

A New Age for Nuclear Energy, with Daniel Poneman

06 26 2025 Pastor Paul Interview- Michael - Fire in the Sky

                    
- Milestone- We'll look back to these days and be thankful. We will have a shock across the bow Michael was shown. Bold statements by Baltics, Europe and many other countries. Politics is guiding our lives. We are all part of humanity. Nations of bloodshed on the backs of innocents will fall. Wicked prosperity. 
- Russia/Ukraine- Russia not on last leg. Really Russia wars with NATO. Was said Ukraine is the front line of NATO. Russia using foreign troops and forced it's own to fight.
- Talk of the Spetsnaz when Obama came in as a stumbling block and went. Trump 1st term was a different man than Trump 2nd term. He tries to bring righteousness back because he was touched. Satan is the president of this system. Trump is giving Christians some time to stand up. Heaviest penalties have been when the church slipped up. Grace and mercy is with us. Council running nation now. God is involved with good and bad people. Don't be part of the kingdom of men. Pray for leaders. Qualified people aren't in leadership. Games ae being played. No warnings for weather or water. 
- inflammation- evoC60. Works. Ensure works too with water.
- Churches had 501C3 tax status. Degraded church. 
- Determine the tree by it's fruit, not the leaves. We are created to become specific individuals. What God made you to be, not whatever you want to be. Hybrids bear a foreign fruit. Never forget you are what God intended you to be. Purge darkness of rebellion. Don't wear strange garments. 
- We'll hear of a majestic woman that will assume power over all nations. Timing depends on us. Born in a process and close to the end? 
- Important people have "died". COT consensus that something's amiss. Death of multitudes goes unreported. AI architect gave a warning. Sentient in 1 yr. not 20 yrs. Data centers NY sized underground. Cars, medical, parking in moments.
- Babylon is the model til the end of Earth. Daniel's statue with 4 eras. 4th most diverse. Last kingdom described as full of eyes. (Like today)  1700's abduction stories before planes. 
- Those from the seas will surface again. US abandoned deep sea exploration. In league? Peace treaties in Arctic. No arms. Why? Abandoned moon as well. NASA admits photos are doctored. Things can be seen there that men put there. UFO story is a lie. It's about fallen angels. 
- Lasers seen mounted on vehicles/Abram's tanks from Michael's dream. US troops deploying against crime.  4 places "on menu" of 7. Must be consequences. 
- This process isn't for our destruction.


09 03 2025  The Final Age of Earth - Have we Arrived?

All that internet seems like it just floats around in space, but it chews up huge amounts of infrastructure, land and electricity. Amy Barrileaux of Clean Wisconsin explains how a data center near you might wreck Wisconsin’s and the globe’s environment.

Data Centers Threaten Wisconsin and Global Climate

The lads were delighted to welcome special guest Simon Dumbleton from World Wide Technology this week. WWT is a system integrator that does a lot of work with telcos. They start by discussing what the current AI boom means for communications service providers and how best they should go about making the most of it, including optimal levels of investment. That eventually leads to reflections on the recent big round of investment pledges to the UK by US big tech, before they conclude by analysing Meta’s new smart glasses and what effect, if at all, products like that may have on the telecoms industry.

WWT, AI and smart glasses

The future of computing might be off-world. Learn how orbital data centers could power AI, solar energy, and a thriving space industry.

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When the power grid falters and the world’s servers thirst for more, engineers turn skyward — not for inspiration, but for fuel. Engines on the Ground tells the story of old jet turbines reborn beneath the glow of A.I. racks, a haunting blend of nostalgia and invention. It’s about how progress feeds on the past, and how even the machines that once carried us through the clouds still have work to do — keeping the future alive, one spin at a time. 


Verse 1
In a hangar of the past, where silver wings once soared,
A jet sits still in silence, its flying days ignored.
But someone saw a spark there, a power still to find -
They lit the flame again and left the runway far behind.

Pre-Chorus
When the grid grows weak, when the lights burn thin,
They lift a turbine from the sky and plug the future in.

Chorus
Engines on the ground, turning air to light,
From runway dust to data bays, they fire through the night.
Old wings feed the hunger of A.I.'s rise,
Engines on the ground, powering the wired skies.

Verse 2
There's a shortage on the circuit, a hunger in the code,
And every bit and byte now needs a stronger load.
So we wake the ghosts of thunder, and give them one more spin,
Old engines breathe again to keep the network's pulse within.

Pre-Chorus
No more waiting on the grid, no more slowing down,
The turbines hum their second life beneath the data town.

Chorus
Engines on the ground, turning air to light,
From runway dust to data bays, they fire through the night.
Old wings feed the hunger of A.I.'s rise,
Engines on the ground, powering the wired skies.

Bridge
They once carried human hearts across the endless blue,
Now they power up the minds that dream what we once flew.
From the roar above the clouds to the hum below the floor,
The flight goes on forever, just in a different war.

Chorus (final)
Engines on the ground, turning air to light,
Where once they chased the morning, now they chase the byte.
Old wings feed the hunger of A.I.'s rise,
Engines on the ground, powering the wired skies.

Outro
The jet age never ended, it just changed its sound -
Still flying through the future, engines on the ground.

Engines on the Ground

A conversation with Dr. Cecilia Rikap on the influence of Big Tech on the development and control of AI.  Dr. Rikap is an expert on this topic and has been studying it for some time as a researcher with Univeristy College of London's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

Economic Impact | Episode 58 | Dr. Cecilia Rikap on Big Tech and AI

"Incremental change may be good theory, but in practice you have to have a big enough stick to hit everybody with to make everything move at once". So shares Adrian Cockcroft, who helped lead Netflix's migration from datacenter to the cloud -- and from monolithic to microservices architecture -- when their streaming business (the "stick"!) was exploding.

So how did they -- and how can other companies -- make such big, bet-the-company kind of moves, without getting mired in fanatical internal debates? Does organizational structure need to change, especially if moving from a more product-, than project-based, approach? What happens to security? And finally, what happens to the role of CIOs; what can/should they do?

Most interestingly: How will the entire industry be affected as companies not only adopt, but essentially offer, microservices or narrow cloud APIs? How do the trends of microservices, containers, devops, cloud, as-a-service/ on-demand, serverless -- all moves towards more and more ephemerality -- change the future of computing and even work? Cockcroft (who is now a technology fellow at Battery Ventures) joins this episode of the a16z Podcast, in conversation with Frank Chen and Martin Casado (and Sonal Chokshi) to discuss these shifts and more.

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a16z Podcast: All About Microservices

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