Green Fix
Green Fix
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Welcome to the Green Fix, the climate & sustainability podcast for Australian corporations and their ESG practitioners. We explore the top challenges and opportunities in the industry, how they are impacting your business and your work, so that you can keep your sanity.
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The show explores critical themes such as the challenges of climate risk management, the role of collaboration in sustainability efforts, and trends in climate tech. Episodes include discussions on topics like the impact of the Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards and community engagement in sustainability, providing listeners with actionable insights on navigating climate challenges.
Welcome to the Green Fix, the climate & sustainability podcast for Australian corporations and their ESG practitioners. We explore the top challenges and opportunities in the industry, how they are impacting your business and your work, so that you can keep your sanity.
In this episode, digital sustainability strategist Tim Prosser returns to The Green Fix to unpack the physical footprint of data centres — the invisible infrastructure behind every AI query, cloud service, and streaming session.
Tim breaks down what corporate sustainability professionals need to know right now: why data centres could consume 11% of Australia's electricity by 2035, what the CEFC's reliability gap warning means for energy prices (and your mortgage), and why annual offsets are no longer cutting it. He explains the shift to 24/7 carbon-free energy matching, the emerging water risks that have Sydney, Melbourne, and Hobart mayors sounding the alarm, and how direct-to-chip liquid cooling could halve data centre water use.
Plus: six metrics to see through greenwash, procurement moves ASX-listed companies can make today, and why your sustainability team needs to be talking to IT — yesterday.
Whether you're reporting under Australia's climate disclosure framework, managing ESG for a company with cloud infrastructure, or just trying to understand where the grid is heading, this one's essential listening.
Find Tim Prosser at sustainabilitydigital.com
Resources
- CEFC (Clean Energy Finance Corporation) ”Data centre growth and the energy transition”
- C40 Cities Network
- ”Sustainable IT Playbook for Technology Leaders” By: Niklas Sundberg, Richard Pastore
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Dan Leverington
Loreto Gutierrez
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