What is the carbon footprint of large-scale global digital preservation?

At  iPRES 2023, Matthew Addis, Chief Technology Officer at Arkivum, raised the issue of environmental sustainability and climate change, and notably the interplay between doing digital preservation at ever larger scales and the environmental impact that this can have. He also alerted about climate change being surely an existential threat to our current digital memory.

See the panel’s suggestions to address the deluge of data and the many ways to reduce the carbon footprint.