Delete your old emails to save water during drought, Environment Agency tells Britons

Emails and photos stored on the cloud are supported by large water and energy-demanding data centres

The Environment Agency urged the public not only to switch off taps, but to also delete their old emails in order to reduce water usage during the current drought.

This year has seen the driest six months to July since 1976 in the UK, with the current water shortfall situation in England now defined as a “nationally significant incident.”

As well as more traditional methods of reducing water usage, such as taking shorter showers, using rain water stored in butts for watering plants, and cutting hosepipe use, the government agency is also drawing attention to the enormous demands on utilities caused by growing data storage.

Files such as emails and photos stored on the cloud are maintained by large data centres, which require huge amounts of water to keep cool. According to an Oxford University study, a relatively small 1 megawatt data centre uses about 26 million litres of water per year.
[...] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/delete-emails-water-drought-environment-agency-b2806240.html

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