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At Green IO this week, I heard about offshore wind, sustainability data, and cloud certification. This post has some notes I took. They all in some way relate to what can get us to more sustainable IT quicker. Better sustainability data It's really hard to reason about your organisation's impacts without data. Hannah Smith (virtual) and Oliver Cronk (in-person) talked us through a new Green Web Foundation community project that helps with better data: Digital Impacts Schema and Taxonomy…

The earth is heating up and AI isn't helping. It drives major increases in electricity use, water use and CO2 emissions. Yet, industry and governments alike seem keen to leverage the latest tech. Can we make greener choices? Yesterday, I spoke at a conference on AI in government about sustainable choices. The presentation and slides were in Dutch, this post is a high level summary of what I covered. As the presentation took place during a record-breaking heatwave, which meteorologists attribute…

At this week’s W3C Advisory Committee meeting, I ran a breakout session on what to do about threats to the open web. We had an interesting conversation. Many interesting points were raised, and some disagreed the web needs saving at all. Disclosure: as the breakout was part of a Member-confidential event, I generalised and synthesised what was raised, and left out attributions to specific individuals, except where I explicitly asked permission (Members can view the minutes). Wait, what threats?…