GADGET GURU

T3's home-grown tech genius plants more flowering solutions

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Q Do I really need to delete all my old pictures from the cloud?

A No. You don't. This question is in response to a really silly and hugely summery suggestion by the UK's National Drought Group that people could “delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems”. It should come as no surprise, given everything else going on in the lake-draining world, that this flippant edict makes Guru furious, and he should not need to explain his reasons. What is clear is that archived pictures of your nan barely even scratch the surface of data centre demand, and if you want to put a digital solution in place, it's probably better to stay away from actual environment killers like Al.