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Some people are never happy. Imagine if you demonstrated ChatGPT in the 90s and someone said "nah... it uses, like 500 watts! no thank you!".

This just isn't true. If it took the energy of a small town, why would they sell it for $20/month?

Because if they sold it at cost, nobody would buy it.

It's the drug dealer model. Trying to get them hooked for cheap, then you turn the thumbscrews.

Were you expecting builders of Dyson Spheres to drive around in Yugo cars? They're obviously all driving Ford F-750s for their grocery runs.

This pretty much describes the bimodal distribution of cars in Louisiana modulo some Subarus

Much less than building an iphone.

Wait till you hear about the "energy and water consumption" of Netflix.