On September 1, Sony — the Japanese electronics conglomerate behind PlayStation, the games console — will delete 550 films from UK customers' libraries, including Terminator 2: Judgment Day, because their deal with StudioCanal, the French rights holder, expired. People paid for these films. They own nothing.
Hyperscale data centres burn roughly 2 litres of cooling water per kilowatt-hour. A 90-minute stream pulls about 0.6 kWh; times 550 films times every prior playback, that's a swimming pool evaporated to deliver a contract that a lawyer let lapse. I did the arithmetic.
Kazuo Hirai retired to a house with heated floors he leaves on in August. The servers keep spinning. The films are gone. The aquifer is not.
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Based on the original article "Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don't own what we buy".
