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Podcast · 19 February 2024 · 1 min read

Beyond the Hype: Can technology sustainability really make a difference?

Colin Eberhardt, Oliver Cronk , Katie Davis

In this episode, Oliver Cronk is joined by experts including Jeremy Axe, Group CTO at DS Smith, and consultants Darren Smith and Katie Davis from Scott Logic. Together, they unpack topics like the energy usage and carbon emissions of IT infrastructure, the challenges in accurately measuring sustainability, and whether claims of ‘green tech’ are substantiated or just hype.

The conversation covers the nuances around operational versus embodied carbon emissions, the sustainability trade-offs involved in cloud versus on-premises hosting, and the need for transparency and standards around eco-friendly tech claims.

Links from the podcast

Proposed Technology Carbon Standard – open sourced by Scott Logic under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence
Scott Logic blog posts on Sustainability – including the Conscientious Computing series
DS Smith’s approach to sustainability
Scott Logic’s approach to supporting technology sustainability

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Colin Eberhardt

I am CTO at Scott Logic and am a prolific technical author, blogger and speaker on a range of technologies.

My blog includes posts on a wide range of topics, including WebAssembly, HTML5 / JavaScript and data visualisation with D3 and d3fc. You'll also find a whole host of posts about previous technology interests including iOS, Swift, WPF and Silverlight.

I'm board member of FINOS, which is encouraging open source collaboration in the financial sector. I'm also very active on GitHub, contributing to a number of different projects.

Oliver Cronk

Hi I'm Oliver. I talk about Innovation, Technology, Sustainable Technology and Enterprise Architecture

Katie Davis

Software developer at Scott Logic, based in Newcastle.

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