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The Cost of Data with Vaidehi Joshi

Vaidehi Joshi on July 23, 2020

To find all of the resources listed in this talk, as well as the full transcript of this talk, check out costofdata.dev. Vaidehi is a senior engin...
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Kyla Gregory

Yay!!!! I feel like a kid in a candy store. lol!

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Ben Halpern

I am loving how well-researched the data is in this talk

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Vaidehi Joshi

i am nothing if not EXTREMELY OBSESSED WITH DETAILS πŸ˜‚

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Arit Developer

An incredibly useful talk - I'm glad for the focus on our responsibility regarding the true costs of data. Awesome job, @vaidehijoshi !! πŸš€

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Joseph Dubon

Wow, excellent talk! Thank you.

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Chase Nickels

Ah! I have that byte sized sticker!

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Adnan Mostafa

Awesome talk, never really thought about this even as I was working with databases. Companies must be held to a standard of using alternative and clean sources of energy, and programmers should be made more aware of their decisions!

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Vaidehi Joshi

Agreed! And we as the creators of technology can hopefully influence companies in the right direction :)

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MREves

Brilliant talk @vaidehijoshi - really gives pause for thought, both for the tech sector, but in any sector and all of our personal lives. The time series chart showing year on year % consumption was really quite scary.

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Vaidehi Joshi

Thank you so much! I put so much work into this talk, so hearing feedback like your comment makes me feel all warm and happy inside! ✨

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Zoheb Abai

Intriguing talk. 20% of projected demand by end of decade !!! Definitely be thinking about it.

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Nada

That's a very informative and interesting talk! I had no idea that servers are so costly!

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Linda Thompson

Thanks for sharing this talk! I love that you were so informative, and also hopeful about what we can do to improve this and be better as developers. :)

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Chase Nickels

I love this talk, it's a unique perspective on the tech industry as a whole!

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Terence

I was wondering about this as I study for my cloud exam. Thanks for making this talk!

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Kate Dameron • Edited

This is amazing! I haven't thought about any of this before. Thanks for giving this talk, @vaidehijoshi !

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Jonathan Yeong

This is a great talk thankyou! I never thought about how data affects our climate.

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Lisa

Being new to dev of any kind this was an amazing talk! I never considered where data is stored! Thank you for putting this into perspective and creating a resource page!

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Kate

@vaidehijoshi Awesome topic, fascinating presentation, thank you!

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Another great talk about computing and climate change by Nabil Hassein: deconstructconf.com/2018/nabil-has...

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patrick cook

Use them to heat homes in Sweden!

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Kim Hallberg

As a Swede, I approve of this suggestion.

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Vaidehi Joshi

Turns out that Sweden has already done this! πŸ˜‰ Check out this article.

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patrick cook

😺 Yes! Thank you for posting the article.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Hi Vaidehi! πŸ‘‹

Did you find the researching the energy usage of data centers come pretty easily, or did you have to go down rabbit holes because maybe the companies aren't so transparent about this?

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Vaidehi Joshi

It was easy in a sense because the work done in the Paul + Anne's whitepaper was immensely helpful! But, it's also just extremely hard to find data round this, which made it hard. So, all in all, I knew where to start, but it was hard to get data and concrete statements from certain providers (especially Alibaba!).

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Terri Fricker

Wow, 20% of projected energy. Surprising.

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Terri Fricker

How soon do you think data centers will produce their own energy, rather than buying offsets?

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Vaidehi Joshi

I would be surprised if this happens, since it requires a lot of your own infrastructure set up! But maybe it will, who knows. I think the more likely scenario is that private companies start providing "green electricity" alternatives (but I also don't know how hard that would be to do from a legal perspective πŸ˜‰)!

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Terri Fricker

This is super interesting.

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Terri Fricker

I read about a man that kept hearing a noise, non-stop, that ended up being the data center near him.

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patrick cook

What about the redundant storage?