Power Play

Marco Pimentel

Booking Overview

An investigative limited series focused on the energy, infrastructure, economics, and policy bottlenecks behind artificial-intelligence development, with external experts used as reported sources rather than as a recurring open-interview format. Credible pitches would include energy and utility executives, data-center and infrastructure leaders, AI-power economists, and policy specialists with direct, authoritative experience; booking is likely high difficulty because of the tightly scoped, editorially selected series format.

Metrics

Episodes: 76

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Contact Information

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Host

Marco Pimentel - Journalist and podcast host at Quartz.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Subject-matter experts, industry executives, economists, and policy specialists with direct knowledge of AI infrastructure, energy markets, utilities, data centers, or technology development.

Required Achievements:

Senior leadership in energy, utilities, infrastructure, data centers, or technology, Published research or recognized expertise in economics, policy, or industrial development

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Recent Topics

Artificial Intelligence, Energy, Infrastructure, Data Centers, Economics

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Power Play

Introducing Power Play

September 09, 2026

AI needs more power, faster than America has ever built it. Power Play is a six-part investigation from Quartz into the bottlenecks, the fixes, and the economics at the core of AI development. Episodes 1 and 2 arrive September 15, then weekly through October 13.

Sleep: The dreamiest new industry

July 23, 2024

There’s a lot of money to be made in the business of sleep. Take sunrise alarm clocks, fancy mattresses, REM-tracking wearables, and monthly deliveries of melatonin. But should we really be investing this much in hopes of catching a few more Z’s? In the final episode of season 8, we consult a bonafide sleep doctor on the matter and get a physician’s POV on a few questions keeping us up at night: Why is there such a large market for catching some Z’s? Can any of these products actually help...

Strollers: Pushing the limits of childrearing cache

July 16, 2024

There are contactless thermometers, the Nose Frieda, co-sleeping. Trends in parenting gear and childrearing practices seem to evolve at faster rates than other sectors, a speed exemplified by a single product: strollers. While we’ve been engineering ways to wheel children around for centuries, stroller manufacturers can’t seem to stop iterating on their models. Strollers have become a status identifier, a repository for parenting anxiety, and an emblem of consumerism run amok. As doctors and...

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