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English => News => Topic started by: Redaktion on April 01, 2026, 06:00:47

Title: EU to tax old emails and photo clutter: New "Data waste" law effective July 2026
Post by: Redaktion on April 01, 2026, 06:00:47
The EU Commission is set to introduce the so-called "Data Carbon Tax" on July 1, 2026. This tax on 'dark data'—such as old emails or duplicate photos—is designed to offset the surging energy consumption of AI data centers powering ChatGPT, Gemini, and similar applications. In the future, users who fail to clean up their data within specified deadlines must expect financial penalties or even the mandatory deletion of their cloud storage.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/EU-to-tax-old-emails-and-photo-clutter-New-Data-waste-law-effective-July-2026.1262935.0.html
Title: Re: EU to tax old emails and photo clutter: New \
Post by: JoeytheJoe on April 01, 2026, 06:55:23
This was good. I liked this.
Title: Re: EU to tax old emails and photo clutter: New \
Post by: toto1234 on April 01, 2026, 07:20:53
"April Fools!"

But very credible.
Typical from what the EUSSR and Ubergruppenfurer Von der La Hyene could foment.

After all, one must finance the only european invention from the past 50 years (the plastic cap attached to bottles)

Title: Re: EU to tax old emails and photo clutter: New \
Post by: remi on April 01, 2026, 08:36:58
stop giving them ideas!
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