Data centers consume massive amounts of energy – much of it far from Green. Much of the energy is made up of hosting speculative and spurious workloads including social media, bitcoin mining, gambling and porn. The addition of AI inferencing added even more to these in 2024. The will be no respite from the negative effect this has on the Earth’s growing temperature rise in 2025. My prediction (or at least hope) is that governments will attempt to eliminate some of the most spurious workloads in 2025. They can also help by tightening up carbon emission audits and investing heavily in renewable energy resources. If not the ITC industry will be guilty to having contributed to Climate Change rather than provide the means of controlling it.