The McKinsey Podcast

Data centers: The race to power AI

Donnerstag, 25. Dezember 2025 · 13 min

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Leaders worldwide are moving fast to deploy AI at scale. But scaling AI means more data centers—and data centers consume vast quantities of energy. On this episode of The McKinsey Podcast (mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-podcast), McKinsey’s Jesse Noffsinger (mckinsey.com/our-people/jesse-noffsinger) and Pankaj Sachdeva (mckinsey.com/our-people/pankaj-sachdeva) speak with Global Editorial Director Lucia Rahilly about what needs to happen to build new, bigger data centers quickly, as well as to sate their growing hunger for power.
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