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Dr. Melvin Vopson 'The environmental weight of data'

World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern

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The Growth of Digital Information

In 1996, digital information became cheaper than paper for storing data. From that moment on, we transitioned into our entire society into a digital world. And there is no limit because nobody wants to delete any data. We generate every day 500 million tweets on the planet,. 294 billion emails, 4 million gigabytes of Facebook data., 65 billion WhatsApp messages and 720,000 hours of new content added on YouTube every day.

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