Decoder with Nilay Patel

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins wants data centers in space

But without Cisco's actual routers and switches and silicon — and the software to make those things work — there's no internet, no cloud, and no AI.

EconTalk

The Unseen Work: Stewart Brand on Maintenance and Civilization

maintenance, the quiet act of keeping things going, turns out to be the hidden force behind success and failure in nearly every domain of human endeavor

Throughline

How Saudi Arabia shaped Silicon Valley | Throughline

Billions of Saudi dollars were already reshaping the US economy. And now many of those tech companies are vulnerable as Iran targets their infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries in the ongoing war.

Pivot

Kara Swisher Explains Why Airport Chaos is "Trump's Chaos"| Pivot

Probably the most obvious investment in the middle class is investments in infrastructure. Because when people can get to work, when people have more opportunities, when people can spend more time with their families, when people have an absence of stress, when they can take their kids to Disneyland, you know, that's that's accretive to the prosperity of their life.

The a16z Show

The Missing Power Layer of Modern Warfare

As the battlefield becomes more distributed and electronics-heavy, the Army's legacy power infrastructure, built around diesel generators and lead-acid batteries, is struggling to keep up.

The a16z Show

Why Every Satellite Needs Earth | Northwood CEO on a16z

Northwood is building the systems that connect satellites back to Earth, enabling faster, more scalable space missions.

TED Radio Hour

Curious stories of coexistence

And it is kind of a city in a jungle. A city-state home to 6 million people and all kinds of high-tech companies all surrounded by trees and waterways.

Semafor

Blackrock Infrastructure Summit: State Spotlight | Semafor Media Partner

When infrastructure doesn't work for people, it hurts the family. It hurts her home budget money out of her rent or child care. And so for me, it was that that moment where it really crystallized when the fundamentals aren't working. People on the margins pay the dearest price for it.

TBPN

FULL INTERVIEW: Alex Epstein on The Oil Market’s Biggest Geopolitical Threat

roughly 20% of the world's oil production is flowing through that every day and so whether you're looking backward or looking forward there is no replacement whatsoever for opening that strait and keeping it open.

The Business of Tech

Australia's new unicorn and its digital twins

So what if you could build a living, breathing, physics based model of the entire grid, every pole line and transformer and watch how it actually behaves in a storm or when you plug in a wind farm or aluminum smelter sized data center.

The Business of Tech

Australia's new unicorn and its digital twins

So what if you could build a living, breathing, physics based model of the entire grid, every pole line and transformer and watch how it actually behaves in a storm or when you plug in and you wind farm or aluminum smelter sized data center.