The UK Government has published advice for citizens on saving water amid the worst drought since 1976. Among the recommendations are to collect rainwater, fix leaks, reduce shower time, and not water the lawn. However, the last point caused surprise: citizens were asked to delete old emails and photos, because "data centers use a lot of water for cooling."
In England, five regions are officially recognized as drought zones, another six suffer from a prolonged lack of precipitation. According to government data, the level of rivers and reservoirs continues to decline.
Experts note that although data centers can indeed use water for cooling, storing photos and letters consumes a minimum of resources.
"Deleting old files will have almost no impact on water consumption, and the process of searching for and deleting them may even use more energy and resources than simple storage," experts explain in a comment to Tom's Hardware.
In addition, experts emphasize that a significant part of the digital data of Britons may be stored on servers that are physically located outside the country, so even hypothetical water savings will not occur in the UK.
Earlier it became known that Britain hid the leak of radioactive water into bay from a secret military submarine base for 6 years.
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