UK government suggests deleting files to save water

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1. Something like this was inevitable as soon as people started believing technologically illiterate things about AI water usage.

   The overwhelming majority of things you can do by clicking a button on a screen that don’t result in receiving a physical object, have completely negligible impacts on water, with very few exceptions. This includes using AI, aside from generating AI video. Generating video does actually use significant resources & you should avoid it *if* you already don’t use a car, take flights, eat meat, etc.

2. your personal carbon footprint but https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/11/uk-government-to-be-sued-in-secret-corporate-court-by-coal-firm-represented-by-tory-mp/ lol clown world

3. This is ridiculous, the stats for water usage are for Arizona, not the UK, and spurious to begin with and we don’t have enough data centres in this country as it is, especially not AI ones.

4. It really is something when you consider that the UK is staring down possible water shortages in the future, is barely doing anything about it AND are now plowing wholeheartedly into AI, which uses up said inadequate water storage faster.

   We are governed by morons.

5. I suddenly respect anyone who ignored the mask mandate because clearly government recommendations dont matter and come from the mouths of the most incompetent people in our society.

   they are too afraid to hold companies responsible for destroying our environment but they’ll tell you to “delete old emails” as if that will do anything.
   I wonder what the real reason is for wanting to delete emails, because they obviously don’t give a damn about climate change or the water table.

6. I suggest fixing the 2 major leaks in my town that have been there for the last 5 years to my knowledge l. Their reaction? Post flyers asking residents to stop wasting water

7. Typical UK government, blame someone or something else, rather than address the underlying problem that the water regulatory bodies were sold off to private companies, who have milked them dry financially, rather than build or update any infrastructure, something that obviously should be ongoing given that the population and number of houses is rising, not falling.

   Said governments of the UK have also done basically no mandating of water saving measures in newly built properties or homes either, compared to what they could do.

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