It already was for basically the entire industrial revolution, when our place on the earth turned parasitic and unsustainable; in the 20th Century it shifted to “the richest 10% consume 90% of the resources, and can only do so for a few hundred years”. In the 21st Century consumption went exponential to “every finite resource will be depleted by the end of the century”.
The investment into data centers is what was needed to fight climate change decades ago. They didn’t want to do that because it wasn’t as profitable as destroying our future.
It already was for basically the entire industrial revolution, when our place on the earth turned parasitic and unsustainable; in the 20th Century it shifted to “the richest 10% consume 90% of the resources, and can only do so for a few hundred years”. In the 21st Century consumption went exponential to “every finite resource will be depleted by the end of the century”.
The investment into data centers is what was needed to fight climate change decades ago. They didn’t want to do that because it wasn’t as profitable as destroying our future.