THE VOLUME OF DIGITAL DATA CREATION IS EXPLODING

THE POWER IT CONSUMES IMPACTS THE ENVIRONMENT

DATA IS NOT CARBON NEUTRAL

DATA CENTERS ALONE EMIT MORE CO2 THAN THE AVIATION INDUSTRY

DROWNING IN DARK DATA

IT’S ESTIMATED THAT AROUND 65% OF DATA STORED IS ONLY USED ONCE – OR NOT AT ALL!

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More than half of the digital data firms generate is collected, processed and stored for single-use purposes.

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Tom Jackson, Loughborough University and Ian R. Hodgkinson, Loughborough University More than half of the digital data firms…

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More than half of the digital data firms generate is collected, processed and stored for single-use purposes.

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Half of the data generated by firms is collected, processed, and stored for single use.

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More than half of the digital data firms generate is collected, processed, and stored for single-use purposes.

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‘Dark Data’ Is Leaving a Huge Carbon Footprint, And We Have to Do Something About It

Science Alert, 

More than half of the digital data firms generate is collected, processed, and stored for single-use purposes.

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More than half of the digital data firms generate is collected, processed, and stored for single-use purposes.

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‘Dark Data’ Is Killing the Planet: We Need Digital Decarbonisation

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More than half of the digital data firms generate is collected, processed, and stored for single-use purposes.

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More than half of the digital data firms generate is collected, processed and stored for single-use purposes.

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More than half of the digital data firms generate is collected, processed and stored for single-use purposes.

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‘Dark data’ is killing the planet. We need digital decarbonization

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More than half of the digital data firms generate is collected, processed, and stored for single-use purposes.

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‘Dark data’ is killing the planet – we need digital decarbonisation

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‘Dark data’ is killing the planet – we need digital decarbonisation

The Hindu, 

In 2020, digitisation was purported to generate 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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‘Dark data’ is killing the planet – we need digital decarbonization

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More than half of the digital data firms generate is collected, processed, and stored for single-use purposes.

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‘Dark data’ is killing the planet – we need digital decarbonisation

Devdiscourse, 

By Tom Jackson, Professor of Information and Knowledge Management, Loughborough University; and Ian R Hodgkinson, Professor of…Big News Network

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‘Dark data’ is killing the planet – we need digital decarbonisation

The Conversation, 

More than half of the digital data firms generate is collected, processed and stored for single-use purposes.

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‘Dark data’ is killing the planet – we need digital decarbonisation

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More than half of the digital data firms generate is collected, processed and stored for single-use purposes.