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

Dark data, or data that is collected, processed and stored for single-use purposes, accounts for over half of all digital data generated by companies. Unused images, files, documents, and other data requires energy to be stored. Data centres, responsible for 2.5 percent of all human-induced carbon dioxide emissions, have a greater carbon footprint than the aviation in...

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