Debate: The data threat to 2050 net zero—public administrations’ responsibility for the ‘data-scape’

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Acknowledgements

We are extremely grateful to several colleagues for spurring the debate as to how the energy consumption of 1GB might be calculated. Special thanks are recorded to Dr Andrew Watson.

Note

The calculations and numerical data included in this have not been independently verified by PMM’s editorial team.

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Notes on contributors

Thomas W. Jackson

Tom Jackson is a Professor at Loughborough Business School, UK. With over 20 years of experience in information and knowledge management, he is renowned for creating EMOTIVE, a fine-grained emotion detection system, and is a pioneer in digital decarbonization, information overload and workplace interrupts.

Ian R. Hodgkinson

Ian R. Hodgkinson is a Professor of Strategy at Loughborough Business School, UK. Ian’s research to date has involved international healthcare policy, public spending and service optimization, digital solutions to wicked problems, and net zero digital initiatives.