{"id":59403,"date":"2025-08-15T09:08:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=59403"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:08:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:08:44","slug":"excluir-emails-economizar-agua-reino-unido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/en\/excluir-emails-economizar-agua-reino-unido\/","title":{"rendered":"Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 UK&#8217;s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The absurd guidance is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall\">a list<\/a> published by the UK government to mitigate the severe drought affecting England, alongside useless classics (\u201ctake shorter showers\u201d) and other nonsense (\u201cuse water from the kitchen to water your plants\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pivot-to-ai.com\/2025\/08\/14\/defra-says-delete-your-emails-to-save-water\/\">As David Gerard pointed out<\/a>, the document makes no mention of the inefficiencies of (privatized) water companies nor the thirsty data centers focused on artificial intelligence. (The great irony is that the suggestion to delete emails to save water may have come from generative AI. Is this how AI will end humanity?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 UK&#8217;s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The absurd guidance is part of a list published by the UK government to mitigate the severe drought affecting England, alongside useless classics (\u201ctake shorter showers\u201d) and other nonsense (\u201cuse water from the kitchen to water your plants\u201d). As David Gerard pointed out, the document makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":""},"categories":[1575],"tags":[1833,2040],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59405,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59403\/revisions\/59405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}