Byte-Sized

Undersea cables are the backbone of the global internet—responsible for 99% of transoceanic internet traffic and 10 trillion dollars of financial transactions every single day. These projects are extremely complex and require coordinating a wide variety of thinkers and teams to make them possible. On this episode, Erick Contag, President of the SubOptic Foundation explains the process of building collaboration across the subsea cable industry behind common goals and values.

The data center industry is constantly looking for places to build new data centers. But, this can be extremely difficult, as data center designers have to find land, materials, power sources, and permits among other challenges — making the process time consuming and expensive. On this episode, Phil Koblence, Co-Founder of NYI and the Nomad Futurist Foundation, explains the process of retrofitting where designers use old buildings for data centers, instead of building them from scratch.