Given this statement, I’m confident mistakes are already being made.
‘"All of that will be swamped by the enormous needs of this new technology," Schmidt told the crowd. "Because it's a universal technology, and because it's the arrival of an alien intelligence… we may make mistakes with respect to how it's used, but I can assure you that we're not going to get there through conservation."’
https://www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt-google-ai-data-centers-energy-climate-goals-2024-10