Charlie Stross@cstross@wandering.shop
This is, to put it mildly, utter bullshit.
You can store a decade of email for a million people—call it 10-20Gb each—in a 10-20Tb NAS box that costs about £2000 and sucks less electricity than a laptop.
The environment agency are gaslighting us. One wonders who put them up to it?
https://social.lol/@robb/115016579150112511
tabbycat@jillypaddock@mastodon.social
@cstross@wandering.shop If these data centres are producing vast amounts of hot water, couldn't they use that for something useful? Maybe for heating local homes or greenhouses for growing salad stuff in the winter?
