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Interview: The High Costs of the Cloud

An Interview with Kalena Thomhave

Kalena Thomhave Jul 2, 2026

Aerial view of a data center in Ashburn, Va., in Loudon County, November 21, 2025.

Chris Sturr, co-editor of Dollars & Sense, interviewed Kalena Thomhave about her feature article The High Costs of the Cloud from our May/June 2026 issue. The interview was conducted on June 11, and aired on the June 25th episode of Economics for the People on KKFI in Kansas City.

You can listen to the episode here.

Published in: The D&S Debrief

Author

Kalena Thomhave is an independent journalist and researcher on inequality. She is based in Pittsburgh.

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