It's a complex topic to discuss, so I try to reduce it to simple principals. In this case, the article leads with a dishonest statement that groups a large thing, the energy usage of all data centers, with a much smaller one, the usage by AI and crypto. In the body they make other illogical comparisons, such as the energy cost compared to a Google search, but presumably not a corresponding fraction of the dependent Google services, or those expended by anyone that they're indexing, or loading the page that was searched for, or whether the same value was ultimately provided by this single Google search. Once you see the pattern of cherry picking and logical fallacies, it becomes clear that if you actually care about the environment, this IMF article shouldn't be trusted. And really, any climate change article that isn't almost exclusively about the carbon based energy industries shouldn't be trusted, as these are most of the problem. Austerity (of any form other than pricing) is about control: more non carbon energy is the only real solution.