Found this article written by John R. Platt over at takepart.com.

The title is self-explanatory:

The Marijuana Boom is contributing to the Climate Crisis

A quick synopsis (but please, go read the article!):

Now that marijuana is legal in Colorado and Washington, a new study has found that…

The electricity needed to illuminate, dehumidify, and air-condition large (marijuana) growing operations may soon rival the expenditures from big data centers, which themselves emit an estimated 100 million metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year.

Yikes.