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'Dark data' is killing the planet – we need digital decarbonisation
Vast amounts of digital data is stored on computer servers and never used.
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So, correct me if I'm wrong, but when we produce zettabytes of unused or never used again data, doesn't make all that producing of data useless i.e. isn't then a lot of time not just useless spent time creating all that, apparently useless, data and therefore not just useless work? And couldn't that time be spent more usefull, for instance by helping societies around the world grow to something worth calling a civilisation instead of just a heap of harddrives keeping useless shit? I thought hoarding was a sign of mental disease.
Your correct on all counts. I don't see a way this can be stopped.
Which companies are the greatest hoarders of data? Just do not use their services, for instance. And why using cloud-services? According to the article it is so we don't use that data wherever we are. It's environmentally better to store locally. It's like food: local and smallscale is better with that, too. :-)
That's what my hard drive is for.