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by MaxBarraclough 154 days ago
Sounds like the Jevons paradox. From https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox :

> The proposition that technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource.

See also Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox