Thread | Brutkey

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

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@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space

@cstross@wandering.shop yeah. somebody in corporate PR seems to have noticed that the public is finally starting to notice resource usage by data centers, and gone out of their way to invent an individualist non-solution

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@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space

@cstross@wandering.shop like... it's bullshit, but don't make the mistake of thinking it's accidental bullshit. it inverts responsibility too directly for that, and it falls into that sweet spot where even attempting to rebut it seems to legitimize it. accidental bullshit would be less well-crafted.

we've personally met the people who come up with this kind of thing, and we can attest that yes, companies do this stuff deliberately.