No, you have to go after the local politicians who keep approving these systems. Electorally of course, you psychos. Your local city council rep is going to feel much more pressure from an angry letter from a voter than your senator would.
The reason these MBAs are billionaires and IT people scurry around putting out fires is the realization that constant disasters just encourage customers to spend more money.
And ironically, AI fixes almost all these problems. Just pull up Deep Seek, drop in whatever the console throws at you and you can get back the answer free of charge. These days the hardest part of bash is remembering that Ctrl+V should be Shift+Ctrl+V.
Building, maintaining and launching rockets is actually not great for the environment either!
Article says this is about DDR3 and DDR4 RAM, so it seems unlikely data centers are directly to blame.
This is probably one of the few issues you could really get grass roots bipartisan support on these days. It would have to be marketed right though. Maybe something like “DEI cameras”, or “6G posts”.