The British government has urged people to “play their part” and delete old emails in a bid to lower internet server water usage amid drought conditions even as water companies nationwide lose 660 million gallons of water a day to leaks.
Following a meeting of the UK’s National Drought Group, the government’s Environment Agency has urged the public to begin mass deleting old emails and cloud photos.
The call to delete old emails drew considerable backlash on social media, with users mocking the advice, including Daily Sceptic writer Ben Pile, who suggested that the energy used by people manually deleting their emails could outweigh that used…
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