UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'

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UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'

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"The current water shortfall situation in England now defined as a 'nationally significant incident.'"

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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/kisamoto on 2025-08-13 08:32:51+00:00.

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