S4E9: Gerry McGovern – Digital Carbon and the Impact of Electronics

We are delighted to bring you a conversation on the environmental impacts of technology with web designer and digital consultant Gerry McGovern. Daithí and Gerry have a wide-ranging talk about topics such as e-waste and the challenges of recycling most phones and laptops; how to lengthen the life of your devices; the embedded water and material impacts of devices and the huge demand for mining of metals that they create; the amount of unnecessary data that is created every year and the energy required to store it; how you can employ simple strategies to use less data; how to make your website use less energy; the large energy requirements of Artificial Intelligence; how Gerry is heartened by the Right to Repair movement and the potential of community activism to drive change. Music in this episode comes from Samuel Arnold Keane. Links: 1. Gerry McGovern - 2. Gerry's Podcast 'World Wide Waste' - 3. e-waste toxicity in landfill - 4. Statistics on lifecycle carbon emissions of a phone - 5. Rare earth metals present in phones - 6. Recycling Rate of e-waste - 7. Fairphone - 8. Energy demand of any website - 9. Data centre energy use in Ireland 2023 - 10. Google's plans to build data centre in Uruguay - 11. Lifecycle emissions comparison of EV vs Internal Combustion Engine car - 12. Projection for growth in material extraction demand to 2050 13. 10x more energy required for AI search compared to traditional search engines - 14. Electricity consumption from data centres, AI and the cryptocurrency sector could double by 2026 - 15. Right to Repair Directive - 16. Samuel Arnold Keane -

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S4E9: Gerry McGovern – Digital Carbon and the Impact of Electronics is an episode from The Climate Ambassador Podcast.

This episode is 45:41 long.

This episode was published on Oct 7, 2024.

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