“… research has now found that the vast majority of data stored in the cloud is “dark data”, meaning it is used once then never visited again. That means that all the memes and jokes and films that we love to share with friends and family – from “All your base are belong to us”, through Ryan Gosling saying “Hey Girl”, to Tim Walz with a piglet – are out there somewhere, sitting in a datacentre, using up energy…”
This is so stupid. It doesn’t cost electricity to keep data in storage. That’s why people can put data on hard drives and safely disconnect them without losing that data. RAM uses a few watts, but it’s negligible.
The real climate dangers are the fossil fuel industries, and the gigantic AI processing centers, and the giant bitcoin miners spinning up ancient coal plants, and the billionaires taking joyrides to space, and the warmongers…
There’s so many more problematic sources of climate change, I have to wonder if this was funded by the fossil fuel industry as a disinformation “study,” or worse, a preliminary effort to cull undesirable information under the auspices of “preventing climate change.”
Excuse me. Can you please limit your posts to one paragraph each? Your valid points are killing the planet.