Google says Nest saved $14 billion in energy but Gemini could be eating it all

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AI boom is driving a $445 billion data center buildout, and it is just getting started

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Quantum Computer Operations are extremely expensive and can solve only certain type of problems.

1-40 MWs for a basically analogous computer?? Forget it!

https://youtu.be/watch?v=N-9muK0mv5w

Especially here https://youtu.be/N-9muK0mv5w?t=282

Original https://youtu.be/NnfffiJYuvk

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https://youtu.be/NnfffiJYuvk?t=1193

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Does not look good for computing, but good news for privacy

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