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How to Build a Sustainable Internet: Lessons from Subsea

What is the environmental impact of of the internet? How can it be made more sustainable? While data centers have been a focus of public, research, and industry attention for over a decade, the fiber-optic cables that carry over 99% of transoceanic internet traffic rarely surface in studies of digital infrastructure's environmental impacts. In the past few years, however, subsea internet cables have been in the global spotlight. Disruptions in the Baltic Sea and off the coasts of Taiwan and Ivory Coast are now drawing attention this vast undersea system. In this lecture, UC Berkeley Film and Media professor, Nicole Starosielski, describes approaches to developing a more sustainable internet drawn from her work coordinating sustainability initiatives for the global internet's backbone: subsea fiber-optic cables. Starosielski brings to light joint efforts within and beyond the subsea cable sector to mitigate emissions and enhance cable sustainability. Collaboration across sectors, with academia, and between technical domains is not only a possible, but also actionable path forward to reducing emissions impacts.