Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement

31. Breakthroughs in Safe and Sustainable Data Storage, with Bhupinder Bhullar

February 23, 2023 Wayne Visser Season 2 Episode 31
Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement
31. Breakthroughs in Safe and Sustainable Data Storage, with Bhupinder Bhullar
Show Notes

My guest this week is Bhupinder Bhullar, CEO and Co-Founder of Swiss Vault. In this episode, he discusses how:

  • Data storage represents around 4% of global carbon emissions and $66 billion of e-waste
  • Energy footprints and cybersecurity risk are especially high for genetic data storage
  • Innovation has led to more than 10X reductions in energy consumption in data storage
  • Lack of protection individual genetic data can compromise others who share hereditary genes
  • Using DNA as a data storage technology has vast potential for archiving historical data

Key links:
Bhupinder Bhullar (LinkedIn)
Swiss Vault (website)
Ideas (poem)
Thriving (book)
Wayne Visser (website)
Wayne Visser (LinkedIn)