By contrast there are 25000 civil aircraft in services, none of them are or could be powered by renewables, and every single one of them uses as much energy as a cloud datacenter. If anyone thought we were going "net zero" with all these airplanes they were mistaken.
Speed and scale has a good breakdown: https://speedandscale.com/tracker/
Plus most new AI datacenters are trying to go pure nuclear wherever possible
Or that we need to cut back on air travel while also reducing CO2 emissions from data centers, with more emphasis on cutting back on air travel?
Do you have a source for that? In 2022, 64% of Google's data center energy was carbon free [1]. I was not able to find similar numbers for Microsoft or Amazon, but they have significant green energy investments as well [2][3].
My perception is that Google is the leader in this space but I don't have data to back that up.
[1] https://sustainability.google/progress/energy/
[2] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/explore/global-infrastruct...
This video is just another degrowther canard.
