Comment on UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'

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IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

It sort of does. Each drive uses energy, simply by being on (spinning rust moreso than flash). As storage demands increase, data centers will just keep adding disk shelfs and more drives, which use more energy. So at home, data storage is effectively “free” since you need at least one drive running anyway. In data centers, there is a calculable energy cost per GB.

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