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There are really three options for reliable baseload: coal, gas, nuclear. Pick your poison.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/09/02/apple-shares-rise-after-...
From an article which I lost the link to. Their logic of free is that those grants are approved already, before Trump's intervention US gets nothing, after US gets 10% of Intel.
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Everything else is just bonus to them. Semiconductors, supporting nationalism, you name it.
It depends on how micro they are. Your example of $1 is quite big. It should be cents or even less.
Several examples. When using chatgpt api, do you really worry how much a short q&a session will cost you? Do you stress whether to turn on the light in your room or not (electricity cost is also micro-transaction if you think about it)?
This makes no sense. No way a global outage will get less coverage than the price drop.
Also the earliest sign of price drop is this tweet 20 hrs ago (https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1932248668469445002), which is earlier than the earliest outage reports 13hrs ago on https://downdetector.com/status/openai/