I really wish people wouldn't pretend these actually matter compared to, say, the proliferation of personal internal combustion cars, or shipping using bunker fuel.

And I really wish HN users would stop considering itself a temporarily embarrassed billionaire and stop being a chill for VCs...

[1] - "...Data centers are projected to surge from consuming 4% of U.S. power to 9%–12% by 2030. Morgan Stanley forecasts that the resulting emissions from this American infrastructure spike will equal roughly 40% of the entire U.S..."

[1] - https://opportunitygreen.org/data-centres/?tab=overview