Moonlightsiesta
bnjmnearlgood afternoon one and all~~
I'm looking for projects/research that look at the the weight of data, how it manifests in huge data centres, and whether there are alternatives – lightweight/solar powered/deliberately small etc etc?
John 
@bene guessing you've already come across this, but just in case - I thought this was very good: https://doi.org/10.21428/2c646de5.031d4553
The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage · Winter 2022
In the age of machine learning, cryptocurrency mining, and seemingly infinite data storage capacity enabled by cloud computing, the environmental costs of ubiquitous computing in modern life are obscured by the sheer complexity of infrastructures and supply chains involved in ...
dywen
marie verdeil@bene quite late...but! check out the work of Joana Moll (http://www.janavirgin.com/works.html)
Also the Shiftproject.org for data and G. Roussilhe (https://gauthierroussilhe.com/en) and of course solar.lowtechmagazine has many articles on the topic!
Also the Shiftproject.org for data and G. Roussilhe (https://gauthierroussilhe.com/en) and of course solar.lowtechmagazine has many articles on the topic!
@marieverdeil ah great, thanks!