It's still a big change from the previous status quo. I've been checking on absolute emissions on various industrial countries for a while now and this is the first time I've seen them actually flat (and not decreasing as a fraction but increasing in absolute terms)

Sure. Difficult to say much from so few datapoints alone.

On the other hand, the apparent cause suggests the trend will continue.

On the other other hand, perhaps China will suddenly decide to build 100 GW of data centers meaning they ramp all the existing coal plants up to 100% load.

I'm mostly hopeful, but not absolutely so.