Governments ought to incentivize efficient datacenter workloads, the same way they're incentivizing heat pumps over resistive heat. If they can give people tax credits for having efficient homes, they can give maintainers of large-scale software something in exchange for optimizing that software. I bet some very large percentage of data center electricity usage is directly attributable to absolute bloat, like VMs that could be containers, build pipelines that chug away endlessly producing nearly identical build artifacts every time, dumb polling that could utilize a smarter message queue push, neural nets that could be if statements, etc. -- where is the "LEED Gold" of software?