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    "text": "This episode is provided by Thomas Allgeier and Freanus, based on the most relevant LinkedIn posts about sustainability and green ICT in CW-四ty-two and forty-three."
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    "text": "Freanus supports ICT enterprises with market and competitive intelligence, decoding green software developments, benchmarking emerging standards, tracking regulatory shifts, and analyzing competitor strategies."
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    "start": 22.9,
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    "text": "Welcome to the deep dive."
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  {
    "start": 25.08,
    "end": 32.22,
    "text": "If you're looking to get up to speed on green ICT trends, you know, without getting lost in all the noise, you're definitely in the right place."
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    "start": 32.28,
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    "text": "Yeah, we've sifted through LinkedIn for the past couple of weeks, CW-Forty-Two and Forty-Three, really focusing on that tricky intersection of AI infrastructure and green software."
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    "start": 42.88,
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    "text": "Our goal today is simple."
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  {
    "start": 45.12,
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    "text": "Cut through that noise, give you the key insights, and honestly, the big story we pulled out is pretty clear."
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  {
    "start": 49.74,
    "end": 49.78,
    "text": "It"
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  {
    "start": 49.84,
    "end": 50.12,
    "text": "really is."
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  {
    "start": 50.18,
    "end": 51.76,
    "text": "The whole industry seems to be shifting."
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  {
    "start": 51.8,
    "end": 55.82,
    "text": "It's less about whether to be sustainable and much more about how to actually do it, execution."
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  {
    "start": 56.06,
    "end": 56.44,
    "text": "Exactly."
  },
  {
    "start": 56.78,
    "end": 57.46,
    "text": "But here's the kicker."
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  {
    "start": 57.74,
    "end": 60.22,
    "text": "The scale of innovation, such with AI, it's huge."
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  {
    "start": 60.88,
    "end": 65.16,
    "text": "And the cost, you know, energy resources, it's becoming almost impossible to ignore."
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  {
    "start": 65.62,
    "end": 67.2,
    "text": "It feels like a real turning point."
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    "start": 67.58,
    "end": 69.46,
    "text": "Sustainability isn't just a report anymore."
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    "start": 69.56,
    "end": 73.34,
    "text": "It's becoming a core, technical, even financial constraint."
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    "start": 73.82,
    "end": 75.54,
    "text": "It dictates who can actually scale."
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    "start": 76.78,
    "end": 81.5,
    "text": "Which brings us straight into the first big theme that was all over the place, this AI energy paradox."
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  {
    "start": 81.72,
    "end": 82.84,
    "text": "Right, the paradox."
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    "start": 83.4,
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    "text": "Because AI needs so much power."
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    "start": 86.3,
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    "text": "Yeah, you look at these large language models, generative AI, the energy cost is the first thing everyone mentions."
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    "start": 91.58,
    "end": 93.3,
    "text": "We saw Nate Nassauant put it really well."
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    "start": 93.36,
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    "text": "He said the cloud is basically running out of breath."
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    "start": 95.76,
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    "text": "That's a great way to phrase it."
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    "start": 96.72,
    "end": 96.92,
    "text": "Yeah,"
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    "start": 97.74,
    "end": 99.1,
    "text": "and energy availability."
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    "start": 99.64,
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    "text": "That's now shaping innovation speed."
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    "start": 101.58,
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    "text": "It's not just about having the best algorithm anymore."
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    "start": 104.08,
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    "text": "And the scale involved is just staggering."
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    "start": 106.94,
    "end": 110.74,
    "text": "Eva Cello pointed out Bite Dance, you know, TikTok's parent company."
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  {
    "start": 110.92,
    "end": 111.3,
    "text": "Oh, yeah."
  },
  {
    "start": 111.54,
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    "text": "What about them?"
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    "start": 112.34,
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    "text": "They're data center plans, expanding from three hundred megawatts up to nine hundred megawatts in places like Brazil."
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    "start": 118.74,
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    "text": "I mean, think about that."
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    "start": 119.72,
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    "text": "Nine hundred megawatts."
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    "start": 121.06,
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    "text": "Wow."
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    "start": 121.48,
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    "text": "At that scale, power, water, they stop being just line items on a bill."
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    "start": 126.9,
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    "text": "They become the scarce resource."
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    "start": 128.8,
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    "text": "And that scale really throws up this awkward question, doesn't it?"
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    "start": 132.08,
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    "text": "Julio C. Serrano brought it up."
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  {
    "start": 133.92,
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    "text": "What's question"
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    "start": 134.4,
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    "text": "was that?"
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    "start": 135.14,
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    "text": "Well, AI is supposed to help save the energy sector, right?"
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    "start": 139.36,
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    "text": "Optimize grids, smart management, all that stuff."
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    "start": 141.74,
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    "text": "That's the promise, yeah."
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    "start": 142.76,
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    "text": "But is the AI industry itself creating an even bigger energy problem with its own consumption?"
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    "start": 149.5,
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    "text": "That's"
  },
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    "start": 149.8,
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    "text": "the core tension."
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    "start": 150.84,
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    "text": "And the numbers, frankly... They are a bit alarming."
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    "start": 154.0,
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    "text": "We know AI training and running these models drives huge energy spikes."
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  {
    "start": 158.4,
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    "text": "Like how much?"
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    "start": 159.32,
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    "text": "Well, Microsoft's CO-II emissions up nearly thirty percent since twenty twenty."
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    "start": 164.28,
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    "text": "Google's almost fifty percent higher than twenty nineteen."
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  {
    "start": 167.54,
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    "text": "Fifty"
  },
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    "start": 167.82,
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    "text": "percent."
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    "start": 168.28,
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    "text": "That's that's massive."
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    "start": 169.46,
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    "text": "That's basically the cost of this gen AI race we're seeing."
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    "start": 172.12,
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    "text": "It"
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    "start": 172.2,
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    "text": "feels pretty unsustainable, doesn't it?"
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    "start": 173.78,
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    "text": "Yeah."
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    "start": 174.02,
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    "text": "If the big players are seeing increases like that, they must be pouring money into efficiency, right?"
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    "start": 178.1,
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    "text": "Otherwise, the whole model just breaks."
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  {
    "start": 179.58,
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    "text": "You'd think so."
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    "start": 180.4,
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    "text": "They are."
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    "start": 181.12,
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    "text": "but it's a constant battle."
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    "start": 182.52,
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    "text": "Kevin Collins mentioned that AI, well, the way it's often done now, is incredibly wasteful."
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    "start": 187.32,
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    "text": "Energy, water, even capital burn."
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    "start": 189.46,
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    "text": "So it's inefficient across the board."
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    "start": 191.2,
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    "text": "But that financial pressure, it's forcing what people are calling green AI."
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    "start": 196.4,
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    "text": "We're hearing about scientists achieving like, forty x to sixty x efficiency gains."
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    "start": 201.94,
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    "text": "Forty"
  },
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    "start": 202.3,
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    "text": "to sixty times."
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    "start": 203.34,
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    "text": "Okay, that's significant."
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    "start": 204.72,
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    "text": "Yeah."
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    "start": 205.44,
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    "text": "And it's not just about being eco-friendly, it's really about financial survival."
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    "start": 209.36,
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    "text": "It's becoming a competitive need."
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    "start": 211.16,
    "end": 211.34,
    "text": "And"
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    "start": 211.4,
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    "text": "that efficiency focus, it's getting really granular right down into the models themselves."
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    "start": 216.96,
    "end": 219.52,
    "text": "Mart Arts gave a great explanation of tokens."
  },
  {
    "start": 219.76,
    "end": 220.86,
    "text": "Ah yes, tokens."
  },
  {
    "start": 221.36,
    "end": 221.96,
    "text": "Super important."
  },
  {
    "start": 222.08,
    "end": 222.46,
    "text": "Explain"
  },
  {
    "start": 222.52,
    "end": 222.94,
    "text": "those a bit."
  },
  {
    "start": 223.24,
    "end": 227.4,
    "text": "So, think of tokens as the basic building blocks of language for the AI."
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  {
    "start": 227.9,
    "end": 229.72,
    "text": "Like smart chunks it processes."
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  {
    "start": 230.44,
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    "text": "Every single token needs energy to be processed."
  },
  {
    "start": 232.56,
    "end": 233.3,
    "text": "Okay, makes sense."
  },
  {
    "start": 233.36,
    "end": 238.0,
    "text": "So tracking energy per token, that becomes the key metric for efficiency inside the AI stack."
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  {
    "start": 238.66,
    "end": 243.7,
    "text": "Optimize how you handle tokens, the model architecture, the hardware, and you cut costs and environmental impact."
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  {
    "start": 244.02,
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    "text": "It directly links code to the power"
  },
  {
    "start": 245.66,
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    "text": "bill."
  },
  {
    "start": 246.02,
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    "text": "That linkage is critical."
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    "start": 247.5,
    "end": 252.1,
    "text": "But, you know, this drive for efficiency, you'd expect it to lead to more transparency."
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    "start": 252.4,
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    "text": "You would, wouldn't you?"
  },
  {
    "start": 253.68,
    "end": 255.02,
    "text": "But that seems to be a speaking point."
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    "start": 255.38,
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    "text": "Noah Edwards pointed out a pretty big gap in accountability."
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  {
    "start": 258.5,
    "end": 258.82,
    "text": "How so?"
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    "start": 259.66,
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    "text": "Well, You've got companies like Anthropic, Google DeepMind."
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    "start": 264.22,
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    "text": "They're making commitments, partnering with low-carbon data centers, publishing reports."
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  {
    "start": 269.06,
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    "text": "OK, some are stepping up."
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    "start": 270.32,
    "end": 274.04,
    "text": "But then you have OpenAI, you know, ChatGPT, the one everyone knows."
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    "start": 274.5,
    "end": 277.44,
    "text": "And they don't publicly share their environmental footprint."
  },
  {
    "start": 277.74,
    "end": 278.06,
    "text": "Really?"
  },
  {
    "start": 278.76,
    "end": 280.82,
    "text": "That seems inconsistent."
  },
  {
    "start": 281.04,
    "end": 281.2,
    "text": "It's"
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    "start": 281.28,
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    "text": "a major point of friction."
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  {
    "start": 283.24,
    "end": 286.14,
    "text": "And that lag of transparency, it immediately creates risk."
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  {
    "start": 286.76,
    "end": 288.94,
    "text": "Holly Alpine highlighted a specific example."
  },
  {
    "start": 289.06,
    "end": 289.52,
    "text": "What was that?"
  },
  {
    "start": 289.9,
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    "text": "A shareholder proposal, proposal ten."
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  {
    "start": 292.22,
    "end": 298.48,
    "text": "Demanding Microsoft disclose the climate and financial risks of its AI tools being used in oil and gas."
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  {
    "start": 299.04,
    "end": 299.78,
    "text": "Ah, so."
  },
  {
    "start": 300.26,
    "end": 306.46,
    "text": "Investors are now connecting the dots, linking sustainability claims or lack theorem directly to financial risk."
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  {
    "start": 306.6,
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    "text": "Precisely."
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    "start": 307.32,
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    "text": "So the takeaway here is, yeah, efficiency gains are happening, they're impressive even, but the sheer scale of AI growth might be outpacing them right now."
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    "start": 314.52,
    "end": 316.54,
    "text": "Which naturally leads to the next big question."
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  {
    "start": 317.2,
    "end": 319.32,
    "text": "Where do we physically put all this demand?"
  },
  {
    "start": 319.58,
    "end": 320.28,
    "text": "Perfect segue."
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    "start": 320.7,
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    "text": "Because the physical infrastructure, the data centers are under a huge spotlight, especially around resources that aren't just carbon."
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    "start": 326.88,
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    "text": "We're seeing this global demand for more realistic reporting, aren't we?"
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    "start": 330.78,
    "end": 331.16,
    "text": "Definitely."
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    "start": 331.64,
    "end": 333.12,
    "text": "Nino DuPlan mentioned Dr."
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    "start": 333.44,
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    "text": "Kevin Gretch urging sustainability reports to properly account for digital water and energy footprints."
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    "start": 339.48,
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    "text": "Digital"
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    "start": 339.88,
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    "text": "water, I like that term."
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    "start": 341.08,
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    "text": "Yeah, treating these hidden impacts, you know, with the same seriousness as we treat, say, heavy industry emissions."
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    "start": 346.9,
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    "text": "And the"
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    "start": 347.18,
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    "text": "water numbers themselves are just mind-boggling."
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    "start": 350.48,
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    "text": "Doren Soren-Gigler cited a figure."
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    "start": 352.78,
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    "text": "Data centers globally."
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    "start": 354.28,
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    "text": "using about five hundred and sixty billion liters of water a year."
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    "start": 357.76,
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    "text": "Five"
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    "start": 358.16,
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    "text": "hundred and sixty billion liters."
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    "start": 360.02,
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    "text": "It's almost impossible to picture."
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    "start": 361.14,
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    "text": "That's like what?"
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    "start": 361.66,
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    "text": "Two hundred and twenty-four thousand Olympic swimming pools?"
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    "start": 364.32,
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    "text": "Every year."
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    "start": 365.08,
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    "text": "Every year."
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    "start": 365.84,
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    "text": "And when consumption gets that high, it's not just the utility costs anymore."
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    "start": 369.38,
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    "text": "It can become a real community issue."
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  {
    "start": 371.4,
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    "text": "Like the example Shristi Drollier raised about India's biggest data center project."
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  {
    "start": 375.28,
    "end": 375.66,
    "text": "Exactly."
  },
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    "start": 376.22,
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    "text": "By twenty thirty, that one project could be using over three hundred and fifty billion liters annually."
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  {
    "start": 381.22,
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    "text": "That's incredible."
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    "start": 382.28,
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    "text": "In areas where water is already scarce."
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    "start": 384.46,
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    "text": "This demands total transparency on their cooling tech."
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    "start": 387.12,
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    "text": "And frankly, obligations for water replenishment."
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    "start": 390.1,
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    "text": "You can't just drain the local resources."
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    "start": 392.1,
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    "text": "No, absolutely not."
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    "start": 393.1,
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    "text": "And this resource pressure, it explains what Ash Allen termed the clean energy land grab."
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  {
    "start": 398.22,
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    "text": "Ah, yes."
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    "start": 399.72,
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    "text": "Companies realizing securing clean power isn't optional anymore."
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    "start": 404.36,
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    "text": "It's fundamental infrastructure for the AI age."
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  {
    "start": 406.86,
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    "text": "Like Meta."
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  {
    "start": 407.46,
    "end": 407.54,
    "text": "Yep,"
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  {
    "start": 407.6,
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    "text": "Meta."
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    "start": 408.22,
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    "text": "Locking down huge amounts of renewables, seven hundred ninety-one megawatts of clean energy."
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    "start": 412.48,
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    "text": "They're treating clean power sourcing as a competitive edge."
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    "start": 415.72,
    "end": 417.22,
    "text": "And it's not just companies, right?"
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  {
    "start": 417.54,
    "end": 418.6,
    "text": "Nations are doing it too."
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  {
    "start": 418.72,
    "end": 419.0,
    "text": "For sure."
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    "start": 419.6,
    "end": 423.08,
    "text": "NASA or Albuci noted the UAE's massive six billion dollar plan."
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    "start": 423.82,
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    "text": "They want to power their whole AI and data center ecosystem with one gigawatt of renewable energy."
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    "start": 429.62,
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    "text": "So securing clean energy is the new battlefield."
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  {
    "start": 432.18,
    "end": 432.6,
    "text": "Pretty much."
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  {
    "start": 432.92,
    "end": 438.16,
    "text": "But in the meantime, while we build out renewables, we also saw discussion around bridging tech like carbon capture."
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  {
    "start": 438.82,
    "end": 440.8,
    "text": "Himanshu Gaur had some interesting examples."
  },
  {
    "start": 440.9,
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    "text": "Go on."
  },
  {
    "start": 441.38,
    "end": 444.5,
    "text": "Well, Google is backing a carbon capture and storage project in Illinois."
  },
  {
    "start": 445.02,
    "end": 447.84,
    "text": "And Microsoft is exploring direct air capture, DAC."
  },
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    "start": 448.18,
    "end": 448.48,
    "text": "DAC."
  },
  {
    "start": 448.56,
    "end": 449.52,
    "text": "Yeah, direct air capture."
  },
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    "start": 450.0,
    "end": 456.34,
    "text": "And they're looking at cleverly using the waste heat from the data center itself to power it, kind of a symbiotic system."
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    "start": 456.66,
    "end": 458.22,
    "text": "That's clever, using waste heat."
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  {
    "start": 458.9,
    "end": 463.48,
    "text": "But while new builds grab headlines, we can't forget existing infrastructure."
  },
  {
    "start": 464.08,
    "end": 465.34,
    "text": "Thomas M. made that point."
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  {
    "start": 465.92,
    "end": 466.7,
    "text": "Very important point."
  },
  {
    "start": 467.1,
    "end": 468.48,
    "text": "Optimizing what we already have."
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  {
    "start": 468.96,
    "end": 473.74,
    "text": "Smart retrofitting of current data centers offers huge, immediate efficiency wins."
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    "text": "And Liam Papel highlighted circularity too, right?"
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    "text": "Using secondhand buildings, focusing on server life cycles."
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    "start": 479.54,
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    "text": "Exactly."
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    "text": "This whole idea of integration, of not just building new, but optimizing and reusing."
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    "text": "It's driving new ways of measuring things too."
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    "text": "The Enlighten Feme one with the ICFN scores."
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    "start": 493.24,
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    "text": "Tell me more about that."
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    "start": 496.92,
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    "text": "What makes ICFN different?"
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    "text": "Precisely."
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    "start": 534.4,
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    "text": "It's a powerful idea."
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    "text": "And it leads us nicely up the stack, doesn't it, from the physical building to the actual code running on it."
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    "text": "moving from hardware to software."
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    "text": "Rafa Nadim defined it pretty clearly."
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    "start": 551.22,
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    "text": "And Ann Curry made that crucial point about co-benefits, which is why this isn't just a nice to have."
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    "start": 567.2,
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    "text": "yes."
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    "text": "A greener system is usually just a better system."
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    "text": "An efficient code is cheaper to run, it's faster, it's often more resilient, more secure."
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    "text": "Inefficiency costs money in every direction."
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    "text": "So it creates this really compelling business case, not just a moral one."
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    "start": 586.14,
    "end": 586.54,
    "text": "Exactly."
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    "start": 586.78,
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    "text": "Which is why we're seeing it translate into actual procurement rules."
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    "text": "Rachel Keilenberg mentioned the Bayer Group ICT software developing practical tools."
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    "start": 595.06,
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    "text": "Like a schedule of requirements."
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    "text": "That forces developers to consider it from day one."
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    "start": 606.68,
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    "text": "That makes sense."
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    "start": 607.46,
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    "text": "Embed it in the buying process, but holding vendors accountable."
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    "text": "We need to look beyond just the electricity used when the software runs, right?"
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    "start": 614.88,
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    "text": "Oh,"
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  {
    "start": 615.12,
    "end": 615.54,
    "text": "absolutely."
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    "text": "Anita Shetler tackled that misconception head on."
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    "text": "The idea that IT's emissions are minimal."
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    "start": 621.94,
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    "text": "That idea only works if you ignore most of the picture."
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    "start": 625.12,
    "end": 625.6,
    "text": "Precisely."
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    "start": 625.9,
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    "text": "If you only look at electricity used during operation, you miss the huge footprint from Scope III missions."
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    "text": "And Scope III is everything else, basically."
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    "start": 634.58,
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    "text": "Yeah,"
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  {
    "start": 634.74,
    "end": 635.36,
    "text": "the tricky stuff."
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    "text": "Hardware manufacturing, building the data centers, even the energy used by the software on our devices, our laptops, our phones."
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    "start": 642.16,
    "end": 645.78,
    "text": "If you ignore Scope III, you're really kidding yourself about the total impact."
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    "start": 646.38,
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    "text": "It's good to see the industry starting to respond though."
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    "start": 648.94,
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    "text": "Charles Humble confirmed AWS is adding scope three data to its carbon footprint"
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    "start": 653.6,
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    "text": "tool."
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    "start": 653.9,
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    "text": "That's a big deal."
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    "text": "Covering embodied carbon from hardware, data centers, transport."
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    "start": 659.94,
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    "text": "That allows for much more accurate accounting by their customer."
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    "start": 662.56,
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    "text": "And that transparency needs to filter down, right, to individual products."
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    "start": 666.92,
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    "text": "Pablo Jose Gomez or SOSMO stressed transparency as fundamental."
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    "start": 670.2,
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    "text": "He did."
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    "start": 671.08,
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    "text": "Arguing for interoperable systems like a digital product information system, or DPIS, to track sustainability data across the lifecycle."
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    "text": "The current landscape is too fragmented."
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    "start": 682.3,
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    "text": "Okay, so transparency across the supply chain."
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    "start": 684.74,
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    "text": "What about the design itself, the user experience?"
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    "start": 687.5,
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    "text": "Torsten"
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    "start": 687.9,
    "end": 690.8,
    "text": "Jonas made a great point about sustainable UX, his argument."
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    "start": 691.28,
    "end": 693.8,
    "text": "User convenience often highs an environmental cost."
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    "start": 693.92,
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    "text": "Like what?"
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  {
    "start": 694.64,
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    "text": "Autoplaying videos."
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    "start": 695.76,
    "end": 696.14,
    "text": "Exactly."
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  {
    "start": 696.4,
    "end": 698.46,
    "text": "Or... constantly fetching data we don't need."
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    "start": 698.62,
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    "text": "Designing to reduce that kind of digital waste."
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    "start": 701.08,
    "end": 703.82,
    "text": "It saves costs and gets ahead of potential future regulations."
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    "start": 704.18,
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    "text": "It's just smart design."
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    "start": 705.3,
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    "text": "Smart design."
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    "start": 706.06,
    "end": 709.18,
    "text": "And finally, standards seem to be favoring certain approaches."
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    "start": 709.66,
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    "text": "Philip Kirsting noted open source has an edge."
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    "start": 712.54,
    "end": 716.7,
    "text": "Yeah, particularly for certifications like the German blower angle, the Blue Angel eco label."
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    "start": 717.7,
    "end": 723.36,
    "text": "Because the code is open, it's just easier to provide the evidence needed to prove it meets the sustainability criteria."
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    "end": 725.54,
    "text": "Transparency helps verification."
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    "text": "Okay, so wrapping this deep dive up, it's really clear that green ICT isn't just aspirational talk anymore."
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    "start": 733.62,
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    "text": "It's about professionalizing the field."
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    "start": 736.78,
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    "text": "We've gone from vague goals to, like, measuring the energy cost of a single software token."
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    "start": 743.08,
    "end": 743.24,
    "text": "Yeah,"
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  {
    "start": 743.38,
    "end": 750.32,
    "text": "to serious discussions about water stewardship and these new metrics like ICP, that C-TECH is part of the community grid."
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    "start": 750.48,
    "end": 754.64,
    "text": "But we also need that dose of realism that James Martin Wilco Bergeroff called for."
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    "start": 755.4,
    "end": 757.88,
    "text": "The projected impact of Gen AI is enormous."
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    "start": 758.36,
    "end": 761.02,
    "text": "We can't just rely on blind optimism about progress."
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    "start": 761.14,
    "end": 761.2,
    "text": "No."
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  {
    "start": 761.74,
    "end": 765.78,
    "text": "Being realistic about where we actually are is crucial if we want to hit climate targets."
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  {
    "start": 766.12,
    "end": 768.06,
    "text": "The stakes feel incredibly high right now."
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  {
    "start": 768.4,
    "end": 773.7,
    "text": "So maybe the thought to leave everyone with comes from Anna Lerner-Nesbitt's observation about how organizations are structured."
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    "start": 774.64,
    "end": 779.94,
    "text": "She noted that most companies treat their AI teams as strategic investments, pouring resources into them."
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    "start": 780.14,
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    "text": "OK,"
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  {
    "start": 780.38,
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    "text": "that makes sense."
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    "start": 781.04,
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    "text": "But the sustainability teams, they're often treated purely as a cost"
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  {
    "start": 784.92,
    "end": 785.18,
    "text": "center."
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  {
    "start": 785.72,
    "end": 789.22,
    "text": "And critically, these two teams, they rarely talk to each other internally."
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  {
    "start": 789.52,
    "end": 795.2,
    "text": "Even though their issues, energy, resources, efficiency are fundamentally linked, that's quite a disconnect."
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    "start": 795.32,
    "end": 795.58,
    "text": "It is."
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    "start": 795.9,
    "end": 798.76,
    "text": "So the real question for you listening is probably this."
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    "start": 799.92,
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    "text": "What will it take inside your organization?"
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  {
    "start": 802.96,
    "end": 809.58,
    "text": "Yeah, what steps can you take to get sustainability seen, not just as a cost to be managed, but as a core strategic investment?"
  },
  {
    "start": 810.12,
    "end": 814.6,
    "text": "An investment in resilience, efficiency, and frankly, future viability."
  },
  {
    "start": 814.84,
    "end": 815.8,
    "text": "A lot to think about there."
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    "start": 828.08,
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