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wait until you hear about this AI thing

What about this AWS thing, Netflix thing, Google Datacenter thing, ... aren't all these things chewing up electrons also?

Yes, we would have better energy management if people unplugged. Good suggestion. But even with that being true, AI is a whole new level of scaling up when it comes to burning energy to drive apps.

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