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How to declutter your digital life

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Digital clutter — all the emails, old photos and other long-forgotten documents — is easy to ignore when it's stored in the cloud. But the cloud uses energy to hold onto all this digital material; data centers use water, air conditioning, electricity, and they take up space.

Here & Now's Scott Tong talks to Time reporter Simmone Shah about how to declutter our digital lives to decrease our carbon footprint.

This segment aired on April 9, 2026.

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