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Do Robots Dream of Electricity Bills?

Inside The Trillion Dollar Hallucination Machine Nobody Can Afford

Oct 14, 2025
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The butterfly lands on a server rack in Larry Ellison’s newest data center—or at least, that’s how my brain wants to picture it. Some Willy Wonka fantasia of whirring machines and cascading water, where the future gets manufactured with the same whimsy as chocolate bars. But there are no butterflies here. Just the drone of ten thousand fans cooling chip…

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