[mhjkl]

During the dot com boom they said data centers consumed 8% of US electricity. It was later proven to be a lie, created with fake studies by coal companies to trick the US into building more coal power plants using environmental activist outrage to implant the idea that the internet needs coal into the mainstream. Make of that what you will

[hoytschermerhrn]

Even assuming this was true at all, something happening 30 years ago is not evidence that the exact same thing is happening today.

[JumpCrisscross]

> It was later proven to be a lie

Source?