Michael BaconAug 12, 2025

The UK government saying "delete old emails" to save water. 🤦‍♂️

Most emails average about 50k of storage even for someone who gets a lot of attachments, and will have exactly zero effect on data center consumption.

"Don't use cryptocurrency" and "don't use generative AI" would of course be thousands of times more effective.

Show threadGalbinus Caeli
@MichaelTBacon And storage of static data is minimally power/water intensive.
Aug 12, 2025 at 8:28pmWeb
Show threadMichael BaconAug 12, 2025
@GalbinusCaeli Some of it is likely even on tape, where the power consumption is effectively zero.
Show threadGalbinus CaeliAug 12, 2025
@MichaelTBacon Possibly, but use of tape, even for deep backup, has reduced significantly in the past decade.