@jasonhickel.bsky.social talks about this in "Less is More." In a growth-based economy (i.e. capitalism), gains in efficiency paradoxically result in MORE resource consumption.
Kevin J. KircherThis is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.