A small data center has been estimated to use upwards of 25 million liters of water per year if it relies on old-school cooling methods that allow water to evaporate.
So pass a law banning evaporative cooling systems from all industrial and commercial applications (or single out data centers), give them 6 months to comply and start handing out fines every day past the deadline.
cool. and watch the entire right wing go mad over “net zero wokery” and “stealth taxes choking our economy to death.” then watch reform win with a landslide and bulldoze the entire net zero agenda and see where we end up.
The right will always complain no matter what you do, so why bother listening to them and capitulating?
sensibly managing the economy and balancing the need to achieve reduced emissions with the need to maintain a functional economy is not capitulating, and indeed being seen to carefully maintain that balance might be key to election victory in four years time.
The country is riddled with leaky mains pipes because water companies are more concerned with allocating huge bonuses to themselves than they are with fixing infrastructure.
Now we’re courting tech companies to build more data centres that our other shitty infrastructure (electric) isn’t even fit to support because magic money tree go brrrrrrr
This is mandated recycling 2.0. Fill supermarkets with products 99% of which come in plastic wrappers, only successfully recover a fraction of that, and then tell the consumer they’re the ones destroying the environment.
If they can fit my 5 recycling boxes up their rear, then they can shove this up their arse too.
I suggest spitting to lose weight
Nice analogy. I used this one in the past: “you can’t fix a full disk by deleting word documents”, but I like yours more
I’m not sure how is this applicable?
If you have storage for documents, they will fill it up and you have to remove them.
One shitpost meme video in your downloads folder = hundreds of Word docx files. Pick the low hanging fruit.
If you put meme videos on production storage, then the hanging fruit is you
How about deleting private ownership of utilities instead?
How is deleting locally-stored files on your home PC going to save water, when your hardware sips resources vs. any AI datacenter in existence?
Most people save these thing in some sort of cloud storage solution.
No, most people do not store their files in a cloud storage solution.
Yeah they do, it has absolutely become the norm and has been for several years. It may not be the norm among Lemmy users, but general public absolutely do use cloud storage for especially pictures.
I’m not sure that’s true any more. Microsoft all but forces you to use OneDrive by default these days.
What are you, some kind of nerd?
I don’t think I will. In fact, I think I’ll download more.
Authoritarian and incompetent.
Just like all the other Fascists.
Absolute farce of a country
I’ll also wear blue clothing to have the same impact
Well, deleting stuff causes a load of processing that wouldn’t have otherwise happened… So I guess I should have some coal barbecues?
