This is a concept I have tried to explain to people for a long time.
If climate change were real, and that's a big IF, then CO2 is likely not the cause, the cause is more likely the total amount of energy being used going up so much. Almost all energy used will eventually degrade to heat energy.
From that perspective it makes sense why so many of the political and business leaders are obsessed with population numbers. You can't stop all the people from using energy so decrease the number of people. It's heartless but it makes mathematical sense.
The internet's business model rests on them consuming massive energy. Web traffic is a commodity, the more web traffic the more money, video streaming is huge amounts of information being trafficked. Thus big tech has an incentive in consuming energy, it directly translates to profits, and if they can find a way to not pay big energy their fair share even better.
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