You're talking about how a business with profit motive looks at these things. I'm talking about how a society is going to look at the value of AI vs where we ge

You're talking about how a business with profit motive looks at these things. I'm talking about how a society is going to look at the value of AI vs where we get our power. AI is a tool that is, so far, only wielded by big companies that have harvested enough data to make it worthwhile, and they'll give us a fraction of it as long as we pay. Electricity is foundational to our society, and so it's difficult to find alternative energy sources that can support us. We could do away with AI right now and be fine.