Life with Machines Podcast Transcripts
Baratunde Thurston · 49 episodes with transcripts
Life With Machines explores the human side of the A.I. revolution – the good, the bad, and the weird – and asks, “How can these machines help us become more human?
Spoken has transcripts of 49 Life with Machines episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from August 6, 2026.
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Latest Life with Machines transcripts
AI's Water Problem Isn't Where You Think
August 6, 2026
Baratunde Thurston (0:00)
Hello again, I'm Baratunde. This is Life with Machines, where we figure out how to live well with tech and not just endure it. And I've been waiting for this moment for I would say 18 months. I would say it's been a long time coming. It is a reunion. Today, we are gonna look at the massive physical footprint of the…
We're going to talk about datacenters. This is the moment we've all been waiting for, the Thrilla in Manila of podcasts. Because these datacenters are popping up all across the world. They're landing in rural towns, in sovereign indigenous lands, in my own community or not, which we'll get to later. And they demand…
Gavin McCormick (2:21)
Thanks for having me here. This is so fun. I'm really looking forward to this conversation. There are surprises in the data we see, so this will be interesting.
Baratunde Thurston (2:30)
This is great surprise. I love that you're already doing the thing that you do. And you're smiling and you're like the opposite energy of me, because I'm like screaming, and you're just like as calm as I want our climate to actually be. Like I feel like I'm the hit map of hot climate summer, and you're just like a…
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