Where the Internet Lives is a podcast and mini-documentary series about the unseen world of data centers. Our objective is to demystify data centers and dig into issues around data centers, such as what benefits do they bring to the world by providing the internet, Al, and Cloud-based services to scientists, cities and individuals, and what challenges do they face that require innovation, such as energy and water consumption.
Our documentary series sought to bring humanity to data and show how individual activists, analysts and innovators are striving every day to help solve some of the world’s greatest challenges.
For Season 4, our theme is resilience.
As communities all over the world grapple with extreme weather, natural resource protection, food security, and protecting public health, the role of data centers is more important than ever.
A number of data pioneers at Google are bringing data into the hands of policymakers, grassroots organizations, and individuals who are using it in easy, natural ways to tell stories, inform policies and programming, and increase transparency to solve problems like hunger, food waste, deforestation, climate financing, grid reliability, health and safety. Google’s data center infrastructure makes these tools powerful and accessible to all.
Our FIVE accompanying films put a human face on data, each one focusing on the life of a single person making a difference in the world through their use of data. Our stories show we can use data and AI responsibly to help solve some of the world's greatest challenges. Our hope is to that these stories give hope. By shooting down the barrel in a wide cimenatic format, we were able to bring a true documentary film style to these stories, which is unusual for a "corporate" video.
The trailer for our video series hit over 100,000 downloads. The combination of laying out obstacles and showing in a hopeful way how individuals are leveraging AI and data to overcome these challenges is incredibly inspiring and hopeful, from showing how a dedicated forest researcher is modeling new ways to predict wildfires to how 2 women, one from an environmental non-profit and one from Google, were able to launch a satellite into space to detect methane leaks from oil and gas companies to sharing the story of a data analyst at a food bank who has dedicated her life to solving hinger and food waste, these stories move hearts and minds. The quality of the both the narrative and the filming and editing has brought us more views and downloads than any other videos we have produced in past seasons for the Where the Internet Lives series.
