Uplink: AI, Data Center, and Cloud Innovation Podcast

About Uplink: AI, Data Center, and Cloud Innovation Podcast

Uplink explores the future of connectivity, cloud, and AI with the people shaping it. Hosted by Michael Reid, we explore cutting edge trends with top industry experts.

Publisher

Megaport

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Mar 2025

Latest episode

8 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

27 of 30 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The VM Boom For AI Agents

   David Crawshaw, Co-Founder and CEO of exe.dev, discusses with Michael Reid how AI agents' increasing complexity drives a new boom in virtual machine infrastructure.

2. 

   18 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Europe Can't Find 5 Gigawatts. So It Gets Creative

   The AI infrastructure race is often measured in gigawatts and billion-dollar campuses. But in Europe, the story looks very different. In this episode of Uplink, Michael Reid sits down with Ben Baldieri, Founder of The GPU, to explore how Europe's power constraints, fragmented regulation, and limited grid capacity are forcing a new generation of AI infrastructure strategies. Rather than chasing hyperscale alone, the market is increasingly turning to smaller, distributed data centers positioned...

3. 

   19 Jul 2026

   Webflow And The New Marketing Stack

   Websites are no longer just digital storefronts. They're becoming intelligent experiences designed for both people and AI. In this episode of Uplink, host Michael Reid sits down with Linda Tong, CEO of Webflow, to explore how AI is reshaping websites, marketing, software development, and the way businesses acquire customers. Linda shares lessons from launching Google Chrome, scaling Android, and leading startups through pivotal moments before explaining how Webflow is evolving from a visual w...

Inside a recent episode

The VM Boom For AI Agents

Published 8 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And so I think that then links back to, you were probably building a very, very efficient way of delivering a VM, like a very memory optimized, very- I guess, a low-cost way to deliver that because of how you've optimized the actual software itself to deliver a VM. Is that sort of an appropriate statement? Yeah, I think that's it exactly. The problem is we now need a lot of VMs. Unbelievable amount of VMs. It's funny because I talk about you guys a little bit because I was like, you were solving a problem that wasn't a problem not that long ago. And people didn't really care about the size of a VM because you don't need to optimize. […]

Who has been a guest on Uplink: AI, Data Center, and Cloud Innovation Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• David Crawshaw
• Tony Rossabi
• Renen Hallak
• Brink Sanders
• David Friend

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

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Quality

60

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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