Data centers: how often the top podcasts talk about it.
Data centers came up in 24 of 89 episodes (27%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, about the same share as in the earlier weeks (29%).
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 24 episodes behind the newest bar
- How to Spot 10-Year Trends and Build Billion-Dollar Companies — Kevin RyanThe Tim Ferriss Show · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it 3 times
- Meta Connect Reactions, Zuck's Beer Pong Controversy, ClusterMAX 3.0, New Bentley EVTBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it 16 times
- John Arnold Joins, 4 Tech Arguments (Number 3 Will Shock You)TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it 13 times
- From AGENTS.md to Enterprise DeploymentPractical AI · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- AI Is Upending the Lives of People Who Do Social Media ProfessionallyOdd Lots · week ending Sep 27 · said it 4 times
- Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Align…All-In Podcast · week ending Sep 27 · said it 8 times
- Steve Hilton & Spencer Pratt: Fixing California, Cheaper Gas, Ballot Fraud & CA Republica…All-In Podcast · week ending Sep 27 · said it 4 times
- Blake Scholl: Why Plane Speed Stalled, Supersonic Commercial Flight, & Revolutionizing th…All-In Podcast · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- Some Personal Agent News, CharlestonAI Founder Joins, 10%, Mikey Shulman, Keith RaboisTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it 7 times
- Fruitfly Hard Takeoff, Parker's Vineyard, Personal AgentsTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it 16 times
- Why Money Launderers Love $100 BillsOdd Lots · week ending Sep 13 · said it 4 times
- Robert Friedland on the World's Monumental Shortage of CopperOdd Lots · week ending Sep 13 · said it 11 times
- AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvementDwarkesh Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · said it 5 times
- AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B CollapseAll-In Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · said it 6 times
- Jobs Boom, Astra Reactions, Cybercab Roll Out, The Dyson DebateTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
- Another AI Safety Kerfuffle, Markiplier’s Stake in GoPro, SpaceX Getting Into Turbines |…TBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 4 times
- WE'RE BACK: Meta Addiction, Jalapeño, Tim Cook's Last Day, FlockedTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 38 times
- Model Mayhem, Nvidia Hugging Face, Pablo Torre Joins, New Data Center DesignsTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
- Redefining Chip Architecture with Arm CEO Rene HaasNo Priors · week ending Sep 6 · said it 19 times
- Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)Lenny's Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · said it 5 times
- The Inference Frontier: from 100 to 10,000 tokens per second — Sean Lie, Cerebras CTOLatent Space · week ending Sep 6 · said it 3 times
- GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuel…All-In Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · said it 28 times
- How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 6 · said it 13 times
Earliest mentions in our archive
The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.
“…going to be looking at $4500 billion in investment into these data centers at a minimum and then they have to climb out…”
Anthropic’s $30B Ramp, Mythos Doomsday, OpenClaw Ankled, Iran War Ceasefire, Israel's Inf…
“Second, our perf per watt is the highest in the world. So if one of these companies, if our partners, built a one gigawatt data center, that one gigawatt data center better deliver the maximum amount of revenues and number of tokens,…”
“…the workloads are going and where the data center buildout is happening and I get less of a return if if I'm in…”
“…exactly why it might be because of fear of job loss data centers being built in my backyard it's too powerful the…”
GTA 6 Goldrush, TBPN's $100M OpenAI Deal, The OG Clickbait King Who Burned $4B/Year
“…from Highex and Samsung and other places and you're building a data center. There's all these things that go into…”
The AI Frontier and How to Spot Billion-Dollar Companies Before Everyone Else — Elad Gil
“AI build-out is this massive CapEx boom. We're building all these new data centers, and at various points in the…”
Most recent mentions
The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.
“…know, the people who are providing the fix and shovels to data centers are doing very well.”
How to Spot 10-Year Trends and Build Billion-Dollar Companies — Kevin Ryan
“So, we go get Sam Sulle and we're like, "Let's go. We got to go to the data center. We got to break in, shut this…”
Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…
“…the customers I work with they're like, you know, they actually have the real airgap where we're carrying in things, you know, physically into the data center because there is no Internet access type of thing. So it's it's a wild world. But and it and it frustrates a lot of, I think, new folks…”
“…online than I am somehow, I'm just curious, like, you know, in the last month, you know, a month ago there was like a lot of people arguing about data centers, and then in the last week, there were a bunch of people arguing about models themselves as this sort of like site of controversy. Do…”
AI Is Upending the Lives of People Who Do Social Media Professionally
“…intelligence. We have to shut down the data centers. You don't even need data centers to do 90% of what you can do…”
Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Align…
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| TBPN | 9 | 34 |
| All-In Podcast | 5 | 27 |
| Odd Lots | 3 | 3 |
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 1 | 11 |
| Latent Space | 1 | 8 |
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 1 | 6 |
| Lenny's Podcast | 1 | 5 |
| No Priors | 1 | 4 |
| The Tim Ferriss Show | 1 | 3 |
| Practical AI | 1 | 1 |
| My First Million | 0 | 4 |
| Cheeky Pint | 0 | 2 |
More trends
Episodes in the newest four weeks:
How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “data center” or “datacenter” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.