The Footprint of Gmail: How Much Energy Would Deleting Email Save?
Like so many others, this TreeHugger made the switch to Gmail a while back, and has never looked back. He immediately started making use of its massive storage capabilities, and stopped deleting anything but the most obviously pointless emails. His email inbox is rapidly approaching the 11,000 messages mark. Being the technologically-challenged individual that he is, it took him some time to realise that there might be consequences to these actions – namely data retained means storage…
