Do we need a "managed austerity" (gesteuerte Sparsamkeit)?

Picture above: "The term cloud suggests that data will fly through the sky, but it takes a lot of rare raw materials": In the server room of a data centre.
Read the full article in German:
Birgit-Mahnkopf-gesteuerte-Sparsamkeit_2021-07-15.pdf (1.13 mb)
About the author Birgit Mahnkopf, political scientist (wikipedia.org)
Source: woz.ch