Not exactly what you ask for but I still find it funny... When I was a child we still had 3.5 floppy disks. A friend convinced me that you get computer viruses like you get human viruses. If you rub dirt from outside on the tape inside the disk there is a chance you could put a virus on the disk.
Did it cause a computer virus? No! Did it destroy the disk drive? Yes! Were my parents mad? Absolutely!
What data centers are net energy negative? Maybe if they designed the building inefficiently large and then placed solar panels on the roof... Maybe. But I haven't seen any articles or papers or evidence of such a data center. Maybe some have on premise energy generators like natural gas but they are inherently less efficient than the state/federal/municipality ran ones which operate on a larger scale and enjoy the benefits of doing such.