The Cost of Data
summary
Data centers consume about 200 TWh/year, roughly 1–3% of global electricity, and the tech sector equals the airline industry in carbon footprint; data centers alone drive ~0.3% of global greenhouse gases. AWS runs 25 regions but only 5 carbon neutral, with us‑east‑1 growing 59% since 2017 and tied to a fossil‑fuel grid; Google buys matching renewable kWh and Alphabet is the largest corporate buyer. A usable tool exists: the Cloud Sustainability Console extension highlights green regions in AWS.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:44How do we store data?
- 2:57Keep things running
- 3:36Servers are demanding
- 5:053% of global electricity
- 5:50% of greenhouse gas emissions
- 6:22What are providers doing?
- 7:42carbon neutral zones
- 10:41Carbon offsets for all servers
- 11:11One clean KWh for each dirty KWh used
- 12:09Global data traffic is growing
- 13:13People are solving for this
- 14:05Find out where your data lives
- 14:36Migrate to a green region
- 15:03Talk about it with your team
- 15:49Build something
- 17:02We are using a finite resource
- 17:14We don't know what it will cost us
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