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Nobody asks sharper or more impertinent questions than Andrew Keen. In KEEN ON, Andrew cross-examines the world’s smartest people on politics, economics, history, the environment, and tech. If you want to make sense of our complex world, check out the daily questions and the answers on KEEN ON.

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Hyperscale: Paris Marx on the Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires

October 20, 2026

Andrew Keen (0:00)

Hello, my name is Andrew Keen. Welcome to Keen On America, the daily interview show about the United States.

Hello, everybody. It's the 20th of October, a Tuesday, 2026 As the year begins to get to its end, we're on the Financial Times, the best business books of the year. They put out their long list. And one of the books on it is a particularly intriguing one. It's out today. It's called Hyperscale, Ambition, Power and…

Paris Marx (1:24)

Yeah. It's really about the scale, the size. Especially when we're talking about data centers, it's data centers that are of a particular scale.

We're used to data centers. We've had them for decades. But when we're talking about hyperscale data centers, we're talking about these ones that because of the centralization of computation that we've had for the past couple of decades, particularly with the cloud providers, these data centers have just become so…

Andrew Keen (2:12)

People often use the term Paris Big Tech, but is hyperscale then a better word to describe, quote unquote, big tech? I'm guessing that the companies in particular are the big cloud companies like Amazon, of course, with their web services, Google who own Gemini, their cloud platform and Microsoft Azure.

They're different from the classic AI companies that people seem to be obsessed with, the frontier companies like Anthropic and OpenAI.

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