Sure, but how does that compare to all the plastic crap people buy? Or electronic waste from consumer goods? Businesses keeping offices open when WFH is a thing?
I haven’t looked up the supply chain stats here, but I imagine it’s also relatively small potatoes when compared to other 500 pound gorillas in the room.
We should certainly deal with it, but it should be much lower priority than the larger sources of pollution.
You forget the production and disposal stage of datacenters which are the biggest polluters.
Sure, but how does that compare to all the plastic crap people buy? Or electronic waste from consumer goods? Businesses keeping offices open when WFH is a thing?
I haven’t looked up the supply chain stats here, but I imagine it’s also relatively small potatoes when compared to other 500 pound gorillas in the room.
We should certainly deal with it, but it should be much lower priority than the larger sources of pollution.
How is that different from producing and disposing a modern car? Those things are essentially large computers with wheels and a combustion engine