Data centers: The race to power AI

Happy holidays to you from us here at McKinsey. Today we've got one of our most popular interviews from 2025. We'll be back January 8th with new episodes. This is the McKinsey Podcast, where we help you make sense out of our world's toughest business challenges. Welcome to the show.

I'm Lucia Rahili and I'm Roberta Fassaro. Hey Roberta. Hey Lucia, it's great to see you. Coming up, we're gonna hear a conversation you had about data centers, how they're critical for scaling AI. They require so much power and investment, and so there are a lot of challenges.

But before we get into all of that, let's talk about what's new on McKinsey.com. Yeah, so we have an article about the future of foreign aid and the kind of impact a decrease of many billions of dollars will have on recipient countries and organizations. And another one about five geopolitical risk questions that all CIOs should consider. Both of these articles can be found on McKinsey.com and in our show notes.

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