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
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
@cstross@wandering.shop
It’s even worse than that. Old emails will be cool storage. Cloud providers are really power efficient for this. But when you delete things, that invokes doing a load of compute, which consumes power.
I doubt it’s intentional gaslighting though. It’s far more likely to be ignorance.