AI data centers aren't helping this, and in fact have reversed all progress that was being made:
The Guardian: "...The world is heading for an “irrecoverable overshoot” of global temperature thresholds that will plunge billions of people into disastrous climate impacts because governments have stalled for so long to cut planet-heating emissions, analysis has found...."
@ai6yr it's odd. The largest issue I think is the separation of an economy to the natural resources substrate.
We should be decreasing use. Datacenters increase use, and are a lazy way to excuse a lack of algorithmic refinement in technology.
An algorithm that decreases natural resources use by half is worth more than an arguable (very!) gain in *perceived* productivity.