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Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI
(www.theregister.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I don't think local economies from millennia ago are similar enough to compare to modern global economies with our current population boom. I think we could for sure have a different approach if our population was stable or decreasing.
What a wide window, but I'd like to point out that the baby boomers generation happened right around this time.
Fertility rates and total population numbers are not the same thing.