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It's pretty complicated. Something like half the emissions / footprint of a phone or computer is in the manufacture of it so anything that means people don't need to replace their device is a win, regardless of battery life or power usage.
A lot of servers are run off renewable energy. If you check out the sustainability pages of AWS or Azure they both talk a pretty good game. Plus if you're using some flavor of serverless there isn't really a dedicated CPU core just for your app so sometimes the server side of it would be using zero energy as it's gone to sleep.
We really need to get to grips with how to measure the 'ecological weight' of software in a simple, reliable and transparent way.