Interestingly enough, humans were never supposed to be used for batteries in the original script of the Matrix. Humans were supposed to be CPUs for the machines

Interestingly enough, humans were never supposed to be used for batteries in the original script of the Matrix. Humans were supposed to be CPUs for the machines. https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executive-meddling-the-cause-of-humans-as-batteries-in-the-matrix https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv...