Comment by ben_w
3 months ago
> - Over a year that is 380 GW of constant power that is needed only for replacing 1M SWEs and that is around 80% of all the current US energy consumption (450GW). And apparently there are 47ish Million SWEs globally as of 2025 [3]
I think the economics here work out as "OK, so we've bought 80% the electricity in the US and used this to sell software to the 96% of humans not living in the US; this is profitable for the businesses, so nobody with money cares about the Americans who now literally can't afford to keep refrigerators running because we outbid them".
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