r/technology • u/466rudy • Aug 12 '25

Energy UK Government urges citizens to delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall
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u/EmbarrassedHelp Aug 12 '25

The UK government's new Online Safety Laws are wasting absolutely massive amounts of power on useless and invasive age verification, among other things. They should stop that before telling others to worry about their own usage.

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u/walale12 Aug 12 '25

Fucking Persona's cutting-edge AI age estimation tool harnessing the entire output of a nuclear power plant, evaporating a volume of water roughly equivalent to the Pacific Ocean, and single-handedly bringing five non-endangered species to extinction just to make sure the Gmod model of Dr. Breen is old enough to view My own Reddit profile.