[Nullabillity]

Until we're in a world of 100% renewables, anything you do that uses renewables just pushes someone else to use more fossil fuel instead. Access to renewables isn't a blanket excuse to waste it.

(Plus "renewable" is kind of a misnomer, there are still limited resources going into the production and maintenance of those power plants too.)

[faeriechangling]

Microsoft is hiring nuclear scientists presumably to power AI. If this becomes the case, I don't think it will be the case that Microsoft's green energy use is just pushing people to use dirty energy elsewhere. If anything they would be helping to accelerate a green transition.

I don't see what's happening now as "Green" but I don't think you need 100% renewables worldwide for a datacenter to be green. You could also build a datacenter by a Dam which is in a location where people wouldn't normally live. This is not all zero sum.

[az09mugen]

May people listen to your wisdom, I totally agree with you.