Yeah or take the case recently where airlines were flying empty planes around europe to keep their airport slots or something. You could spend years overhaulin

Yeah or take the case recently where airlines were flying empty planes around europe to keep their airport slots or something. You could spend years overhauling efficiency in the entire global tech industry and succeed and it would be undone by a couple cases like that. Cases like that happen all the time: we mostly consider acting on economic incentives valid unless it's specifically illegal. Which is not to say this isn't a thing we should do eventually, or maybe even start thinking about now. I haven't done the math on this but my guess is we could balance out the carbon cost of all datacenters by shutting down a few dozen coal power plants. We are building new coal power plants.