'Dark data' is killing the planet - we need digital decarbonisation

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Dealing with the vast amounts of digital data that is stored on computer servers and never used is crucial to meeting net zero targets, explain Loughborough University professors Tom Jackson and Ian R. Hodgkinson

More than half of the digital data firms generate is collected, processed and stored for single-use purposes. Often, it is never re-used. This could be your multiple near-identical images held on Google...

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