Per Axbom (npub15yp…j00n)
> Microsoft’s global water consumption grew 34% from 2021 to 2022
How? You can't "consume" water in the sense you consume energy. Why can't they just reuse the same water?
> 80% of content in data centres could be stuff we never use again, stored by default to consume energy in perpetuity
How? Doesn't data stored on hard drives only use energy when it's accessed?
Strypey /
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2024-02-17 09:32:11
in reply to nevent1q…0e4j
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