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Memes, reply-all emails, and the thousands of photos on our phones typically have our attention momentarily, and are then quickly forgotten. But energy-wise, they very much go on. That’s what Ian Hodgkinson, a professor of strategy at Loughborough University, argues to the Guardian. His recent studies on junk data zooms in on the micro amounts of data we rack up, and what effect it might have on climate change. He says that while people widely consider things like email and digital photos to be carbon neutral, “every piece of data, whether it be an image, whether it be an Instagram post, whate…