Another problem of silicon production has toxic effects on the environment in general aside from carbon emissions. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021

Another problem of silicon production has toxic effects on the environment in general aside from carbon emissions. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/18/semiconductor-silicon-chips-carbon-footprint-climate https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/18/semicond... There is a lot of waste from the software industry too. In the past developers would squeeze out every last drop of performance out of a hardware platform. Now we use the horribly inefficient frameworks, we don't vectorize, we interpret byte code. There is so much room for improvement.