Try mamba instead of conda [0]. It's really fast.

The first time you have to run it as:

    conda install -c conda-forge mamba

From then on, you replace conda with mamba. For example, if you are installing dask-cuda from the rapidsai channel you run it as:

    mamba install -c rapidsai dask-cuda

At this point, mamba is just so much better and faster, that it's the first package I install in an Anaconda environment.

[0] https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba