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minus-squareDragonBallZinn [he/him]linkfedilinkEnglish11•6 months agoI am a very non-tech person, can someone explain to me why “junk data” isn’t regularly deleted?
minus-squarenothx [he/him]linkfedilinkEnglish14•edit-26 months agoNot sure what you mean by “junk data”, but hoarding data is the least of our issues. It’s the computational power and cooling that eats up all the energy, not the “cold storage”.
I am a very non-tech person, can someone explain to me why “junk data” isn’t regularly deleted?
Not sure what you mean by “junk data”, but hoarding data is the least of our issues. It’s the computational power and cooling that eats up all the energy, not the “cold storage”.