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Episodio 8: El Centro de Datos en la Cuadra
¿Alguna vez te has preguntado qué sucedería si cruzaras una comunidad agrícola con la forma más avanzada de tecnología humana?¡Fuimos al Valle Imperial para averiguarlo! En este episodio especial de…
S3E5 Episode 7: Electric Futures Live! Everything You Need to Know About Data Centers
Recorded live in USC’s Wallis Annenberg Hall in April 2026, this special episode focuses on the key issues surrounding data centers, the focus of Season 3. What exactly are data centers? Who benefits…
S3E6 The Data Center Next Door | Episode 6: The AI Data Center Pushback
In our Season 3 finale, we explore what it is about data centers that has been creating animosity across the country. Is it the pushback against what powers artificial intelligence…or is it something…
S3E5 The Data Center Next Door | Episode 5: Will AI Bring Jobs to the Valley?
In this episode, we explore how communities think about jobs when a data center comes knocking. When a data center comes to town, will it bring high paying jobs to a community? Could this be the main…
S3E4 The Data Center Next Door | Episode 4: Not in My Backyard
When a hyperscale data center comes to a place like Imperial Valley, communities have questions and concerns. Billions of dollars of investment — and profit – are at stake. Community members have…
S3E4 The Data Center Next Door | Episode 3: Water is for Fighting Over
In this episode, we look how the proposed data center in the Imperial Valley would use water, then explore similarities and differences with data centers around the nation. How much water is really…
S3E2 The Data Center Next Door | Episode 2: The Tech Behind an AI Data Center
We take a deep dive into the AI data center planned for California’s Imperial Valley and talk to the developers themselves about how the project came about. Then, we explore the mathematics of AI and…
S3E1 The Data Center Next Door | Episode 1: Back to the Imperial Valley
Have you ever wondered what might happen if you crossed an agricultural community with the highest form of human technology?We went to the Valley to find out! In this season of Electric Futures, we…
Season 3 Trailer | The Data Center Next Door
Season three of Electric Futures, the USC energy transition podcast, takes listeners back to California’s Imperial Valley, a region explored throughout season one in connection with the county’s…
Special | My Story Is A Climate Story: 2025 LA Wildfires | Episode 3: One Year Later
It has been a year since the fires, and some of the impacts are only now starting to come into play. Despite efforts from the government and community groups to provide speedy disaster recovery, the…
Special | My Story Is A Climate Story: 2025 LA Wildfires | Episode 1: January 7th
This special three-episode season takes an intimate look at the impact of the 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires on the USC community. We’ll get to know five USC professors who were displaced as a result of…
Special | My Story Is A Climate Story: 2025 LA Wildfires | Episode 2: The Emotional Impact of Loss
Climate-amplified extreme weather events are rising in frequency and intensity all over the world; yet the emotional impacts of these events, the loss and grief they bring, and the long-lasting…
Your Community, Electrified | Episode 4: Where We Go From Here
We talk to two expert journalists about what’s next for the U.S. Department of Energy programs and green energy during the second Trump administration. In the first half of the episode, you’ll hear…
Your Community, Electrified | Episode 2: The Tech Behind the Microgrid
We take you through the science of microgrids with UCLA’s Rajit Gadh, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and founding director of Smart Grid Energy Research Center. How does it work…
Your Community, Electrified | Episode 3: It’s All Connected (Communities)
It’s January 20th, 2025. Donald Trump’s second term as president. He signs a slew of executive orders, including one called “Unleashing American Energy.”This order rolled back about a dozen climate…
Your Community, Electrified | Episode 1: Shadow Mountain
We’ll take you to the Shadow Mountain housing development in Menifee, California. It’s an experimental community outside of Los Angeles where 200 all-electric homes produce and store their own…
S2 Season 2 Trailer | Your Community, Electrified
Brief description: Before fires scorched Los Angeles in January of 2025, the Electric Futures team began exploring a new neighborhood in Southern California that was built with climate disasters in…
Building a Green Chicago - A Collaboration with "Home Interrupted"
The Electric Futures team recently collaborated with the independent media outlet "Feet in Two Worlds" to highlight stories around the nexus of immigration and climate change. Here's an episode from…
S1E7 Valle de Litio | Episodio 7: Una Época de Cambio
Este episodio fue hecho especialmente en Español para explicar en resumen la investigacíon hecha por el ex-rector y profesor de ingeniería química y ciencias materiales, Charles Zukoski. En esta…
A Message from our host, Charles Zukoski
Host Chares Zukoski wants to thank you for listening to the show and let you know about an exciting paid survey opportunity. We want to hear from you! (The survey is now over)Thanks again for…
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