Il governo britannico indica inspiegabilmente ai cittadini di eliminare vecchie e -mail e immagini per risparmiare acqua durante la siccità nazionale – “I data center richiedono grandi quantità di acqua per raffreddare i loro sistemi”
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/uk-government-inexplicably-tells-citizens-to-delete-old-emails-and-pictures-to-save-water-during-national-drought-data-centres-require-vast-amounts-of-water-to-cool-their-systems
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Yeah I don’t think the UK government knows how data management works.
Starmer trying his best to make sure he doesn’t ever win another election
And don’t boil water for tea to stop climate warning.
I’m always confused when people talk about “saving water”. Where do they think the water is going?
Is it a bad joke to point out that UK is surrounded by water?
Hm that’s weird. Maybe they can turn off this government mandated law that got into effect that forces private companies to require and store IDs of citizens? You know if they are so worried about water preservation.
How odd.
Lead software engineer in big tech here. For those of you saying this is nonsense, I’m afraid you’re very wrong. It would save energy and therefore water. Although actually storing the emails doesn’t use any extra power vs an empty disk, managing the data does. Some examples:
– Email search indices would be much smaller, requiring less RAM and CPU power for every search query.
– Searching through 1 year vs 5 years of emails means dramatically faster response times and less processing per user interaction.
– Less overhead maintaining message threading, conversation histories, and folder structures.
– Significantly smaller backup operations.
– Cross-datacentre replications will use significantly less bandwidth and compute.
– Database maintenance and optimization tasks complete much faster.
The savings could actually be fairly significant for hardware being used to manage emails. At a rough estimate I’d say perhaps up to 20% if rather than storing 5 years of emails you only stored 1. It’s a small saving overall, but the little things do add up.
Why is the whole, entire world ceding water and power priority to data centers at the expense of actual tax paying human residents?!?!? We’re doing it here (🇺🇸), stressing power grids, draining reservoirs, and blanketing whole communities with unbreathable air, all in deference to data centers that contribute *nothing* to offset this pillaging!! (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ
Also don’t bathe, don’t drive a car, … Unless you are a politician, an executive or a celebrity. Then you can keep your lavish lifestyle, including using your private jet.
How about reducing Internet’s speed to a crawl?
That should do it pollution wise, right? ^(right?)
Dunno… Regulate those big tech corporations, to begin with… 🤷🏼
How is it possible that after 14 years of absolute gobshite governing by the Tories, Labour has these kind of brain farts once a week.
Did they steal the Tory book of ideas?
ban spam emails then?
So I should stop asking ChatGPT to count out all of the galaxies in the universe by representing them with exclamation marks?
Delete all the pics and messages of my friends and family that have passed away so you can use more chat gp? 😂
We’ve reached a level of disinformation that reached governments, and it’s happening all over Europe.
This is very concerning.
Plus:
> As some onlookers have noted, the recommendation rings a little hollow when juxtaposed next to the UK government’s commitment to turbocharge growth using AI.
Indeed.
Uk government to delete the debt in order to save water
The fact that they would do something as stupid as this before trying to curb water use in our disgustingly bloated animal agriculture industry is an excellent demonstration of how flat out purchased the UK government is.
Do people think data centers use up the water? Where do they think it goes?
AI will soon get all the water. Citizens will get to pay a premium and be rationed too.
God forbid we make the big tech companies use less data. No, you go delete your 5 gigabytes of text and pdf files, peasant!
That’s one of the vaugest articles I’ve ever read.
Also the government: There is a mandatory retention period of at least 6 years for tax documents, financial statements and accounting records, possibly 10 or 15 years, where we feel like it.
Bringing AI into government going well I see.
It’s always the fault of the little guy. The big industrial polluters are never to blame.
I’m sure glad they left the “evil” and “overbearing” EU that “didn’t let them given their country”… 😏
wasn’t UK like, a group of islands?
they’ll do anything but actively address the water industry. absolutely pathetic.
Surveillance costs more water than storage, nice try tho.
Meanwhile, Thames Water’s executives are receiving taxpayer money for their failures.
I like how the title was written by ChatGPT for the cherry on top for ridiculousness.
“Erase the proof you may need in future legal issues with employers or companies you deal with.”
Ok. How about no.
Maybe the should just use air cooling and use the hot air to evaporate more water from the ocean to counteract low rainfall?