Huh? That doesn't negate the point? Yes in aggregate transportation still takes up 100X more energy than data centers.

Here's the hard truth.

Old economy: 20 white collar workers drive their SUVs 30-60 mins in traffic into an office building that needs to be heated and cooled 24/7, then drive home.

New AI economy: 1 guy works from home and agents in a data center do the work, using up 1/1000th the amount of energy.

If you actually cared about carbon emissions you'd be screaming that we should run toward the new AI-based economy.

Anyone saying otherwise is not a serious person. Now, of course you can complain about AI ruining in person socialization around the water cooler. That is real.

But energy (or water) usage as a complaint is not only wrong and counter-productive to the thing you claim to care about, but its also insincere virtue signaling to mask what is fundamentally just fear of a new technology.