Omid Razbani

The Cascade

Science EN ↓ 1 episodes

Every week, a story from the news. Every story, a system hiding underneath it. The Cascade is a podcast about the hidden complexity of the world we live in — infrastructure, technology, society, and how they shape each other in ways we rarely see coming. Hosted by Omid Razbani, an associate professor in systems engineering, each episode takes one real event and unpacks the deeper logic behind it. Because things don't just break. They cascade.

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Omid Razbani

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Episode 1: When the Cloud Meets the Grid 23.05.2026 18:12

We think of the internet as weightless — cloud storage, streaming, AI tools floating somewhere in the digital ether. But behind every search, every prompt, every uploaded file, there is a very large building, full of machines, drawing enormous amounts of electricity from a grid that was never designed for them. In this episode, we look at a recent emergency order in the United States that gave gri...