[seattleeng]

Yes, the climate boogeyman shows up as a common anti-tech trope since most people don’t look into the breakdown of emissions. Basically everything in direct consumer control pales in comparison to transit (car/truck/boat/plane).

Speed and scale has a good breakdown: https://speedandscale.com/tracker/

Plus most new AI datacenters are trying to go pure nuclear wherever possible

[jeffbee]

I don't think there is any sensible way to defend that last sentence, unless stretching the definition of "trying" to its limit.