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 threadHeddersAug 12, 2025
@MichaelTBacon Also - and I can't really stress this enough - the data centres storing and processing those old emails are predominantly *not in the UK* and *not using our water system*.
Show threadMarcus The Board Gamer

@hedders @MichaelTBacon Indeed. All my personal emails aren’t. Work emails are because of legal requirements (although does anyone trust Microsoft to keep them in the UK?)

Yet again the political class has no understanding at all about technology. See also; Online Safety Act.

Aug 13, 2025 at 6:13amWeb