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Welcome to our talk on why
digital decarbonisation
is critical to
knowledge management.
I'm Tom Jackson, a Professor
of Information and
Knowledge Management at
Loughborough Business School.
Hello. I'm Ian Hodgkinson,
Professor of Strategy at
Loughborough Business School.
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Why should you bother
listening to this talk?
Well, it could save you money,
and it could actually
help the environment.
We're going to look
at the impact of
moving data through to
information to knowledge,
and the impact on the environment
of actually happening.
By the end of it,
we'll hopefully get
you to question
how much data you're storing,
and why do you need
to store that data,
but also, you'll be aware of
why digital decarbonisation
needs to be
part of your net zero journey.
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Let's set the scene.
We think digital
is carbon neutral.
When you start saving
things to the cloud,
you click a button, and
it goes into the cloud.
You don't physically see or feel
the heat coming from
the data centre,
the noise coming from
the data centre.
You can see we have a map of
what actually happens
in the data centre:
all the things, so the cooling,
the hard drives, the networking,
the CPUs, the GPUs that do
all the computational work.
You're probably thinking,
why do that actually matter?
Well, 2.5-3.7% of global
greenhouse gas emissions
are generated from data centres.
That's worse than the
aviation industry,
which is about 2.1-2.4%.
We are creating huge
volumes of data,
somewhere between 175
and 180 zettabytes.
You might ask, what
does that really mean?
Well, it's the equivalent
of one person watching
high-definition Netflix
for 6.8 billion years.
Incredible, right?
The question we've got to be
asking with all this data,
we should be getting
much richer insights
and have better knowledge.
The issue we've got, though,
as we start to create
and collect more and more data,
it's having an impact
on the environment.
So if we're looking to
get to net zero by 2050,
digital will have
to play its part.
