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Glad someone with a brain finally spoke up

A data center only uses energy when it accesses data, simply having it does not require any energy. If we're talking about old emails... they're not going to be accessed.

But the whole thing is just completely retarded, it's a waste of time to even acknowledge the flaws in it.
I don't know where this myth about data centers somehow sucking up entire rivers worth of water has come from, it feels very forced. It started with AI and was never once argued through the decades that google and its massive data centers have existed for. Because even the biggest data centers in the world, even all the data centers in the world combined... just don't consume all that much energy, and they certainly don't pollute anything of significance.

It's a frankly bizarre argument and I suspect the motivation behind it has nothing todo with "Saving water" and everything todo with combatting the data centers themselves. They want to get rid of the data centers and they're scrambling for excuses to do it.