Today we have Christian Pearson on the program. Christian is a cultural critic and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. And I wanted to have Christian on because I had this realization recently that in popular culture the data center is the new hidden fortress. Like in movies and on TV, there is often this plot point that someone needs to break into a data center to steal some file or something. And I wondered why. Like, why is it that data centers are a symbol of value the way that banks used to be the symbol of value. And that launches us off into some pretty weird territory regarding data centers and science fiction in general. We realized that like half of the Mission Impossible movies have some sort of a scene in a data center. But of course all of the data centers in these movies are heightened and look nothing like reality. Also, if you’re worried that this won’t have any technical discussion of data centers not to worry, we have an oddly long discussion of data center water filtration so stay tuned for that. Christian was a great guest and I’m excited to share this conversation we had.

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