Environmental impact of digital disruption
summary
Digitalization drives big energy demand as software needs storage, compute and networks that emit carbon, with IDC forecasting 6.8 trillion by 2023 in digital transformation spending. The concrete claim is that software teams must quantify and cut that footprint by measuring CO2 per API call and auditing data placement, idle resources and printing. Suggested tactics include right-size cloud instances, move cold data to cheaper storage, prefer efficient codecs and batch jobs to shave surprising percentages of consumption.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction to digital disruption
- 8:05Climate change impact of digital tech
- 17:36Energy use in digital systems
- 26:19Sustainable tech solutions
- 35:01Future of digital sustainability
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