— Written by Camryn Kirk

Your New Favorite Docuseries 📺

Where the Internet Lives is an award-winning podcast and mini-documentary series centered around Google’s data centers and the AI they power. Season 4 kicks off this week with Episode 1, and don’t worry, the trailer is already live! Each week, we’ll be dropping a new video and podcast episode, taking you on an eye-opening journey into how. The series dives into how Google’s data infrastructure is shaping community resilience when facing wildfires, power grid overloads, plastic garbage, air pollution, and food waste.

Thirty-eight percent of all the food in the U.S. ends up in the landfill, while 44 million people don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Energy blackouts can impact millions of people overnight. Extreme weather displaces generations of family homes, businesses, and even entire towns. This devastating hurricane season is yet another painful reminder that climate change is already here. The scale and scope of climate change can feel overwhelming, but the new problem-solving capabilities presented by AI and data centers are a step change that can supercharge our efforts. With revolutionary new abilities to predict and plan at hyper-scale, we can ready our grid, our infrastructure, and our communities for what’s to come.

This season also focuses on how these new data-powered technologies make the invisible, visible. With the help of AI, data analysts, scientists, and researchers are uncovering innovative ways to see and understand the critical problems we’re facing. From advanced fire behavior models to a groundbreaking satellite detecting methane leaks from space, data is offering unprecedented insights that were previously beyond reach. 

At Pique, while we know the road ahead will be challenging, we like to focus on the future we want to build.  Ten years from now, could we predict wildfire behavior to prevent catastrophe? End hunger and food waste? Create a circular economy that eliminates endless extraction?  Or maybe even dramatically reduce methane emissions and bend the curve on warming? None of it will happen without hard work, but the tools to solve these challenges exist today.

Watch the trailer here: Where the Internet Lives | Season 4 Trailer

Click here for the series page.

And let’s get a sneak peek into the episode topics:

• 🌩️Ep 1: Climate + Weather 

• 🪫Ep 2: Energy 

• 🌱Ep 3: Food + Agriculture

• 🧑‍⚕️Ep 4: Health + Equity

• 🌀Ep 5: Circularity

What episode are you looking forward to watching most? Share with your friends + let us know! 💬

👀 Some Stories You Might Have Missed This Week 🗞️📺:

1. Volunteer Pilots Are Flying Supplies to Trapped Hurricane Helene Victims | Corky Siemaszko 👏

2. The End of an Era As Britain’s Last Coal-Fired Power Plant Shuts Down | Jillian Ambrose 👍

3. ‘You Basically Have Free Hot Water’: How Cyprus Became a World Leader in Solar Heating | Helena Smith ☀️

In Case You Missed It 👀

Do you live in LA?! Here’s a MUST go-to event on 10/16 at LA Tech Week (in two weeks)!!!

🏝️ Climate Tech Cocktails @ LATW '24

Overcoming Dilemmas In the Green Transition

TED Countdown is hosting a day two event (October 29-30th) at the EGG in Brussels, Belgium with over 20 expert speakers gathering to discuss the roadblocks and path forward for the transition to a sustainable economy. To learn more about how to attend the discussions, click here.