UK's National Drought Group recommends deleting old emails to help save water

4 ColinWright 3 8/16/2025, 10:23:33 PM netwars.pelicancrossing.net ↗

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ColinWright · 3h ago
The title given on the page itself doesn't reflect why I'm submitting this.

Taken from TFA:

> At 404 Media, Matthew Gault was first to spot a press release from the UK’s National Drought Group offering a list of things we can do to save water. The meeting makes sense: people think of the UK as a rainy country, but an increasing number of parts of the UK are experiencing extraordinarily dry weather. This “green and pleasant England” is brown.

> Last on the Group’s list of things we can do to save water at home: “Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems.”

duxup · 3h ago
This is one of those suggestions that maybe should have been run by someone who has some level of understanding about how the world of computers work.
ChrisArchitect · 2h ago