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@velartrill If you want energy use to go down, energy /prices/ have to increase.

Efficiency /buys more power expenditure/, because it effectively /lowers prices/.

Wm. Stanley Jevons, 1860s. The Jevons paradox.

We've made computers millions of times more efficient over the past 40 -50 years. That hasn't /reduced/ the number of computers or amount of computation, it's /increased/ it. And ... for comparatively little upside.