Datacenters are rather few single points of massive consumption.
Charging hundred million cars requires millions of points of high consumption.
The grid to charge an enormous fleet of EV really is more difficult and expensive to build than supplying a few dozen data centres. On top the EVs need charging in urban environment, while data centres are located in industrial environment. It is easier to lay a few massive cables from a nuclear power plant to a datacenter, than to lay millions of kilometres of mediumthick cables to every neighborhood in a country.
I’m not justifying the enormous energy usage of data centres, but this is a bit like comparing apples with oranges.
It’s not the same.
Datacenters are rather few single points of massive consumption. Charging hundred million cars requires millions of points of high consumption.
The grid to charge an enormous fleet of EV really is more difficult and expensive to build than supplying a few dozen data centres. On top the EVs need charging in urban environment, while data centres are located in industrial environment. It is easier to lay a few massive cables from a nuclear power plant to a datacenter, than to lay millions of kilometres of mediumthick cables to every neighborhood in a country.
I’m not justifying the enormous energy usage of data centres, but this is a bit like comparing apples with oranges.