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[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Agreed, and therefore an AI will always use more. As they required all of us, doing shit this big, for this long, to function. So, since each of us required a whole civilization to get to this moment, we're back to where we started, crossing off every externality and only counting direct power usage for the task at hand.