“… research has now found that the vast majority of data stored in the cloud is “dark data”, meaning it is used once then never visited again. That means that all the memes and jokes and films that we love to share with friends and family – from “All your base are belong to us”, through Ryan Gosling saying “Hey Girl”, to Tim Walz with a piglet – are out there somewhere, sitting in a datacentre, using up energy…”
I mean, if it is forgotten, then it just takes hard drive space (plus extra if the drive is fragmented)…do you mean the fraction of energy used by the hard drive just by being on? Does it add up to anything comparable to actually spending processing cycles?
We used to have libraries to store media history and shitposting controversies like the Dreyfus affair…
Why the fuck are they posting this bullshit? The cost of an email include the cost of the device you use to send or read the email, which is 70% of the cost. Then it’s 15% (energy wise) to transport the email. The cost of storing the email is 0.5%.
With that in mind, think about how much it costs to watch 1h on YouTube or Netflix…
Some explanations in French (sry):
Hm… Memes are being used to just destroy the dumbfucks running for office that absolutely want to fuck up democracy and now memes are the ultimate existential threat to the planet… Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…
Not even pretending to hide the blame shifting. This is so egregious. Just like the “carbon footprint” shenanigans, happening in real time
If data isn’t being accessed, it isn’t using much power. So it just minisculy hurts the company storage costs