As Britain experiences one of its worst droughts in decades, its leaders suggest people get rid of old data to reduce stress on data centers.
  • tyler@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    Increase in network activity, cpu activity, thermal loads on the system. Letting the data sit is definitely going to be less usage. Sure if they had said to do all this before the drought it would matter now, but during the drought you’re already using the energy and any change will increase that usage.