You have identified the gravitational pull of progress. In a digital and automated age, the marginal cost of replication approaches zero, creating a structural collision between old-world scarcity and new-world abundance.

The price of energy needs to do this first before we can reasonably assume that this will happen for massively energy intensive industries… Don’t see that happening around here anytime soon. Certainly not soon enough to save centralized hyperscalers 🍿