We’ve crystalized carbon and hid it away in concrete. Entire hyperscale data centers are powered by the wind and the sun. Air, free and abundant, can be used in lieu of water to cool data centers — even in a place like Houston (which is saying a lot based on the summer we’re having in Texas).
Efficiency gains have helped to limit electricity demand from data centers to the point where they now account for only 1% of global electricity demand after data consumption shot up by almost 40% in the spring of 2020.