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When websites are left behind, they often linger on servers as digital ghosts. Just like the mountains of unwanted artificial intelligence content piling up across social media platforms, these forgotten pages take up physical server space and consume energy. Over time, hosting fees lapse, domains expire, and the data slowly vanishes into the ether.
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