EQ News: Open AI's Influencer Trip + London Droughts and Data Centers

This week, Jamila and Jenn tear into OpenAI's very first influencer trip, a "digital detox" weekend at a luxury eco-farm upstate, complete with workshops on using ChatGPT more, because nothing says reconnect with nature like a company whose data centers are draining it. They debate whether OpenAI is uniquely tone-deaf or just doing what every tech giant does at Cannes Lions, and why Anthropic still gets the benefit of the doubt (one good podcast interview will do that). Then the conversation turns local: a new data center approved in Jamila's own London borough of Ealing boasts the world's largest solar panel wall, which, once you do the math, will power the facility for a grand total of three hours a year, while residents brace for flickering lights and low water pressure. All of it lands in the middle of London's third drought in five years, a crisis the UK still has no public playbook for. Grab your hose pipe ban and settle in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.