"Many engineers focus on product-level analyses and often miss the systems-level impacts of the products they are “improving.” Our 2021 analysis of 320 articles on digital technology, each with a title that implied inclusion of an environmental assessment, found that only 115 actually had such an assessment. The rest focused on energy use or electrical configurations leading to greater efficiency, as if these constituted sustainability advances."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-09-29/degrowth-for-engineering-and-engineering-for-degrowth/