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You lot are excellent, thank you very much for understanding!
Stagnant data doesn’t do anything in those data centres, though. If you were downloading and uploading data all the time, sure. Don’t do that. But deleting old data actively uses power as the computers will then have to go and fetch that data and then erase it.
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And this is why you should self host all personal data. I wish I had the capability and time to self host emails as well but can’t have everything.
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