2022-10-06
Each server is “a steel box about the size of a kitchen sink, made up of all sorts of precious metals, critical minerals and plastics”, with a lifespan of 3 to 5 years before it gets dumped in a shradder for “customer data privacy”. #Mining (un)#Sustainability #waste
Financial Times
An investigation shows Amazon, Microsoft, and others destroy millions of data storage devices each year, creating huge waste when software wiping methods exist
Companies like Amazon and Microsoft routinely destroy used hard drives in the name of data security — but industry insiders say there is a better option Tweets: @halvarflake , @fin...
And each year, more waste. Your emails, files or pictures are not stowed in a “cloud”. They require servers, millions of them. @FT https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
An investigation shows Amazon, Microsoft, and others destroy millions of data storage devices each year, creating huge waste when software wiping methods exist
Companies like Amazon and Microsoft routinely destroy used hard drives in the name of data security — but industry insiders say there is a better option Tweets: @halvarflake , @fin...