El Duvelle on Nostr: This is not a joke... A [press release]( ) from the UK government about a meeting of ...

This is not a joke... A [press release](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall ) from the UK government about a meeting of the "national drought group", in order to "save water at home", suggests to:

> "Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems"

... while the government also pushes for full-blown investments in, and adoption of, "genAI" (e.g. [here ](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-opportunities-action-plan/ai-opportunities-action-plan ) ) with absolutely no mention of the environmental costs.. which are surely orders of magnitude worse than whatever a server uses to store old pictures, and for what?! 🤦🤦🤦

#GenAI #SavingThePlanet