I would have guessed that this would be the case, absolutely. It's not like the cloud makes everything better for e waste; for my home use SSDs are a giant pain because I need to monitor them for wear and replace them and etc etc , but it's so easy to let a cloud provider do it that I'm sure there are businesses cheerfully burning through SSDs who wouldn't be using them for on prem. But overall, for environmental analysis that isn't ideologically committed to going back to rocks and sticks, you have to balance what you get for the impact of a thing--and data centers squeeze a lot out of their stuff.
