redlemace

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Data storage does not consumes energy. Read and write data does. Deleting data initate database queries and other CPU activities. This request will more likely cause a spike in energy. It won’t save any energy in any case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is making users who opted out of AI training opt out again, watchdog says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used the one-step process to opt-out : <delete-account>

  No, I don’t have the illusion the data will be gone, just as I don’t think the opt-out really works. Meta just don’t get more data and advertisement revenue out of me.