If they took controlled measurements of the power (and cooling water) usage before and after deleting some amount of email, I would love to see the names of the people conducting the experiment, the procedures used, and the resulting numbers.
Until then, I’m inclined to think this suggestion is tommyrot dreamt up by people who have no idea how things work.
Many years ago we had a “green team” supposedly come up with ways to save energy and reduce emissions. The best they could think of was have the computers turn off at night. That’s when we did patches and we already had disabled screensavers and had them sleep instead, set machines to idle sooner, etc.
In response, I put together some napkin math of how much would be saved if:
Work from home was implemented and offices were powered off 1 day a week.
HVAC was set 1 degree higher in summer and lower in winter.
They met us in the middle by setting the screen timeout to 30 minutes instead of an hour.
If they took controlled measurements of the power (and cooling water) usage before and after deleting some amount of email, I would love to see the names of the people conducting the experiment, the procedures used, and the resulting numbers.
Until then, I’m inclined to think this suggestion is tommyrot dreamt up by people who have no idea how things work.
Many years ago we had a “green team” supposedly come up with ways to save energy and reduce emissions. The best they could think of was have the computers turn off at night. That’s when we did patches and we already had disabled screensavers and had them sleep instead, set machines to idle sooner, etc.
In response, I put together some napkin math of how much would be saved if:
They met us in the middle by setting the screen timeout to 30 minutes instead of an hour.
It’s simple. The water serves the data. How dare you use the water for peasant needs? It has a higher purpose feeding chatbots and chatbot enablers.