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  • Excess memes and ‘reply all’ emails are bad for climate, researcher warns

    08/13/2024 6:27:12 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 48 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Fri 9 Aug 2024 14.20 EDT | Helena Horton
    “I can has cheezburger?” became one of the first internet memes... But 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” ... are out there somewhere, sitting in a datacentre, using up energy. By 2030, the National Grid anticipates that datacentres will account for just under 6% of the UK’s total electricity consumption, so tackling...