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Some drongo at the UK's Environment Agency (i.e. their Director of Water, which I guess is like being a tap) has suggested that it's the little things that count.
National Drought Group meets to address “nationally significant” water shortfall, 12 August 2025:
Simple, everyday choices – such as turning off a tap or deleting old emails – also really helps the collective effort to reduce demand and help preserve the health of our rivers and wildlife.
Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems.
It's not the little things, in this case. Or, maybe it is, but before destroying our collective cultural memory you could perhaps try not using AI for every little thing, or moving your thermostat a degree or two.
AI is set to drive surging electricity demand from data centres while offering the potential to transform how the energy sector works, 10 April 2025:
It projects that electricity demand from data centres worldwide is set to more than double by 2030 to around 945 terawatt-hours (TWh), slightly more than the entire electricity consumption of Japan today. AI will be the most significant driver of this increase, with electricity demand from AI-optimised data centres projected to more than quadruple by 2030.
Take more photos! Keep them! Describe them well and explain why you took them. Make them available to your community. Those are useful things to do, that are worth spending electricity on (and it's really not very much electricity, in most cases).
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