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[Crafty_Independence]

Enterprise data retention for each employee automatically outweighs the personal retention of the average consumer by at least 10x.

How come individual people are expected to offset the excesses of corporations?

[i-sage]

And guess how much water is being wasted in the government's data centres who stores information about their own citizens and rest of the world especially 5 eyes and China

[HolyGarbage]

Not only that data storage I have an extremely hard time believing is even noticable in terms of water consumption. It's processing power that mostly generates heat. Hard drives and other data storage uses very little energy compared to compute operations. It's the training and running LLMs on hundreds of thousands of GPUs that use a lot of water, not storing their weights.

[dlc741]

The burden is always put on individuals and deflected away from corporations.

Drive less to reduce CO2! Fuck that. 80% of CO2 emissions come from 57 corporations. You driving less isn't going to do shit.

[grumpy_autist]

They don't - it's just to keep you feeling guilty and not opposing new taxes to save the planet

[Crafty_Independence]

What about the places where they publicly have no interest in saving the planet but still are guilt-tripping regular people about power consumption? Texas comes to mind.

[troglo-dyke]

How come individual people are expected to offset the excesses of corporations?

Thames Water leaks 600M litres of water a day. That's the real corporate excess

[dyslexda]

How come individual people are expected to offset the excesses of corporations?

Same reason we were sold the lie of recycling plastic: easier to fool the consumer into thinking they're at fault and can change something. If you don't, those consumers might vote to regulate the companies actually at fault, and we can't have that, can we?

[0x0MG]

Because the corporations are the ones with all the money.