How Much Does It Cost to Store All Those Screenshots You Once Needed? It’s More Than You Think - CNET
There’s probably a photo on your phone right now that you haven’t looked at in years. Open your gallery, and you’ll find all kinds of things you forgot you saved. You might see recipes you swore you would cook, 50 blurry shots just to get one good picture for Instagram, duplicate documents or screenshots of a random QR you scanned once and never needed again.
You probably think none of it matters. It’s just sitting there, not doing anything, right?
Not quite. It is actually doing something quietly in the background to the environment. That forgotten photo or screenshot hasn’t disappeared. It’s sitting on a server somewhere, saved not just once, but a few times, on machines that never really turn off.
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