As a tangent to this, the widespread lack of performance/efficiency-first thinking in software design is responsible for an enormous amount of waste that direct

As a tangent to this, the widespread lack of performance/efficiency-first thinking in software design is responsible for an enormous amount of waste that directly contributes to things like climate change. We've normalized using 10x more servers than is required to deliver a workload with performance-conscious architecture because it is expedient. The "throw hardware at the problem" mentality has gotten out of hand in my opinion. Many people with very eco-aware personal lifestyles write code that is the software equivalent of a coal-fired SUV, oblivious to the contradiction.