Sorta like how corporations pushed recycling onto the public to deflect from their own culpability for pollution. Why would we regulate the companies building huge data centers when we can get average people to absorb the cost? It’s not like they’re making obscene profits while laying off untold thousands.

I mean, if that was the case, sure, let’s have them pay to clean up the waste they generate. But have you seen NVIDIA, Microsoft, or Meta lately? These companies are barely staying in business. Their CEOs can hardly afford to ride the bus to work. Let’s cut them a break.

TLDR: It’s your fault the earth is dying because you horde emails.

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    Also super long term archives are stored on magnetic tapes, they consume virtually 0 energy

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      That’s for backups. You wouldn’t have it as the only storage method because it’s so inconvenient to get the data.

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      tape storage is for offline storage, and any data storage on it would also be redundant

      writing and reading tape archives takes a lot of computing. usually you have your tape library server and a server hosting the app and then the tape sled. tape takes a lot of energy

      so deleting it electronically is going to take a more energy

      it’s more efficient to overwrite it or use a degaussing device to wipe the tape