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Vaidehi Joshi The Cost of Data

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The Cost of Data Vaidehi Joshi

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I love learning how stuff works!

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The internet

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The internet is built on many things.

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Everything we put on the web is stored somewhere.

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But how many of us think about this?

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I certainly didn’t! Until recently.

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Data center

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https://pixabay.com/photos/server-space-the-server-room-dark-2160321

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_media/33838065805

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Cloud Providers

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65% utilization rate on ☁ 15% utilization rate in

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65% utilization rate on ☁ 15% utilization rate in ¼ fewer servers provisioned

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Percentage of data center traffic from ☁ 0 0.25 0.5 0.75 1 2016 2021 96% 88%

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Seems good, right?

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SLA

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No downtime?

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Hard to find data

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~200 TWh 1-3% of world’s electricity 1 TWh = 1 trillion watts/hour

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The ICT sector creates 2% of greenhouse gas emissions.

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The ICT sector’s carbon footprint is the same as the airline industry.

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Why??

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Why?? Fossil fuels

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The State of Data Center Energy Use in 2018, Paul Johnston & Anne Currie

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5 carbon neutral zones Offset your emissions*

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5 carbon neutral zones Offset your emissions* *a carbon offset still means you’re emitting greenhouse gasses

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Not very transparent

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US-East-1 Dominion Energy

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US-East-1 +59%

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Carbon fee model ✅

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Investments Renewable energy certificates (RECs)

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Not entirely transparent .

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Carbon offsets $$$ renewable energy +1 clean KWh back into the grid for each dirty 1 KWh used

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Carbon offsets $$$ renewable energy +1 clean KWh back into the grid for each dirty 1 KWh used

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China 66% increase in China’s data center industry between 2019-2023

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No public data Limited renewables

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How will this scale into the future?

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It’s easy to increase usage.

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Global data traffic is growing.

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28 billion

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Connected IoT devices (billions) 0 5 10 15 20 2017 2020 20 8.4

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© IEA

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© nature

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We need to think about this problem.

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Some of us are.

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Each of us has agency, too.

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Find out where your data lives.

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Migrate to a green region.

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Draw attention to this issue.

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Build things!

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Be aware.

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Denise Yu Paul Johnston Anne Currie @deniseyu21 @pauldjohnston @anne_e_currie

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We are using a finite resource.

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We don’t know what the cost of data will be.

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I’m optimistic.

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You have a voice in this.

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Will you use it?

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Thank you! @vaidehijoshi https://bit.ly/2SH1Kk8