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elbasti | 5 months ago

I think you're pushing the metaphor a bit far, but the parallel was to something like ore.

A power plant "mines" electron, which the data center then refines into words. or whatever. The point is that energy is the raw material that flows into data centers.

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fuzzfactor|5 months ago

Maybe more like converting energy to data, as a more specific type of refinement.

phkahler|5 months ago

Using energy to decrease the entropy of data. Or to organize and structure data.