…on the grounds that everyone is a potential predator.

Tom’s Hardware:

The UK government has instructed citizens to delete old emails and pictures to help conserve water, following the announcement of a “nationally significant” water shortage. However, the advice isn’t up to snuff, as deleting emails and pictures should have no significant effect on water consumption, and might even make it worse for data centers that use certain types of evaporative cooling.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/uk-government-inexplicably-tells-citizens-to-delete-old-emails-and-pictures-to-save-water-during-national-drought-data-centres-require-vast-amounts-of-water-to-cool-their-systems