From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   There’s a water shortage in the UK right now, and one of the measures   
   the Government is suggesting to try to save water is ... deleting old   
   emails   
   .   
      
   Yes, data centres do chew through a lot of power, and use a lot of   
   cooling water to take away the waste heat from that power. But do they   
   really think that the deletion of, say, a few hundred million or even   
   a few billion emails nationwide, will make much difference to the   
   water consumption of even a *single* email server?   
      
   Of course Amber “Necessary Hashtags” Rudd was one UK politician who   
   immediately came to mind ...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)