Jason Box and Paul Johnston on What Technologists can do About Climate Change

Engineering Culture by InfoQ

• Episode: Jason Box and Paul Johnston on What Technologists can do About Climate Change
• Website: Engineering Culture by InfoQ
• Feed URL: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:258266127/sounds.rss
• Duration: 00:22:26
• Published: 2019-03-13 12:21

In this podcast recorded at QCon London 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jason Box and Paul Johnston about the impact climate change is having, how information technology contributes to greenhouse gasses and what technologists can do to help combat it. Why listen to this podcast: • Climate change is the challenge of our time • Data centers are a real problem IRO global warming and greenhouse gas emissions • Data centers have the same emissions impact as the aviation industry • There is an initiative to have all data centres using sustainable power sources by 2024 • Data center demand is set to increase by 5 times by 2025 • The greenlandtrees.org initiative is planting trees to capture carbon More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2Hi9jt8 You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2Hi9jt8