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Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social

The UK government is advising people to delete old emails and pictures to save water at data centres (right at the bottom of link). Does this work? Anyone have data? I'd have expected storage like this to produce minimal amounts of heat compared to the energy needed to find and delete old data.

aug 12, 2025, 9:36 pm • 1 0

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Kaganis @kaganis.bsky.social

I can only think they’re hoping enough gets deleted that the data centres can decommission some racks of hard drives.

aug 12, 2025, 10:21 pm • 1 0 • view