"If you have been led to believe wind and solar are making a significant contribution, think again. Fossil fuels are their primary source and sociopaths like Mark Zuckerberg whose products provenly harm the mental health of our children has proposed a data center the size of Manhattan."
Capitalism is fertile soil for Jevons paradox.
And Mark Zuckerberg is a capitalist. A rentier capitalist. Money for nothing. Use what he owns and pay him is the way he wants things to work out.
Wouldn't it be nice if you got a check in the mail, as a small percentage of something sold or a service rendered. You never have to do any work to get it, the check just comes. In America it takes living many years on this earth to understand that what you are doing is a theft. It should be obvious, but American culture gets in the way of this understanding. Zuckerberg will never have that understanding. To destroy the earth for unearned riches is an obvious evil. However many Americans cannot see the obvious.
Data centers are a speculative bubble feeding on itself. Capital is raised and the people raising this capital get paid today. Opaque metrics let raisers of capital sell potential capacity and build massive campuses. Transparency makes selling difficult. The AI buildout results from investor storytelling and rentier incentives, not actual verified necessity.