More heat reservoirs.

Yeah, let them figure it out. It's their problem after all. If it's more expensive, then let them increase prices for their "data serving" activities. If it's too expensive for some people, they might reconsider their usage of said services which in turn might be equivalent of "deleting old files or emails". Instead of asking people deleting files right now before those in charge even tried to fix the problems they created.

Ideally yes, but realistically, fuck the commoners, give money.

If evaporative cooling is the only solution then the market will adjust to the new cost by moving power generation towards the coasts or just increase the price, if there are other solutions they’ll become the economically more viable. Either way more water is conserved and you can always balance the cost benefit by adjusting the fine/tax to find a good balance.

Most people only have a smartphone and maybe a tablet, and don't have personal PC or laptop. Android and iOS automatically upload stuff to the cloud (at least photos).

best recent example is the evolution of plastic free straws.... took 3 years to innovate, would have never ever happened without the pressure.

and dann the first versions of soggy paper sucked so hard.

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?

To be fair, those automated air pumps require upkeep (e.g. compressors fail after awhile and aren't always super cheap to replace when factoring the cost of the part and labor to fix). So that's what your money was paying for, not the air itself. But, I agree it is a bit ridiculous.

As a side note, I highly recommend those portable air compressors that can plug into your car's aux port. Super convenient in the winter time when your tires' air pressure drops.

I never heard so much bs in a single article. Those files and emails are stored on cold storage, and is using zero water. I guess it's a good thing to remove old files and empty your trash bin, both in real life as well as digital.

But this article makes no sense at all. Just one query to an AI will use so much more energy and water in comparison with your old email in cold storage. It's a joke.

Ps. By removing your files now, and checking the contents, you are actually moving the files from cold storage to hot. Meaning the server will load the data into memory etc. Which will actually makes this drought worse, not better.

Cloud is just my own Nextcloud, hosted from my own garage. And trust me, it's using zero water.

I tried deleting my files but I was age checked...

Fk UK government

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.

You know what you're right. It's too hard. I think running out of water is maybe the better option.

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.

Why do I have to drink ocean water when they're the ones wasting it all?

One shitpost meme video in your downloads folder = hundreds of Word docx files. Pick the low hanging fruit.

Good for you, that's not the norm though and you know that.

Lol, sorry, I meant that for them, not for you. Should have written 'maybe they should just stop pulling water from those “stores of freshwater” for cooling purposes and get their own from the ocean'.

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.