The Long Arc of Efficiency: What Refrigerators Teach Us About the Future of AI Data Centers

The Long Arc of Efficiency: What Refrigerators Teach Us About the Future of AI Data Centers

As AI demand accelerates, the race is on to bend the power curve before it bends the grid. The first electric refrigerators were mechanical curiosities—loud, bulky appliances that consumed staggering amounts of electricity. But they spread anyway, because the productivity gains were too great to ignore. Daily habits shifted. Food systems reshaped. Household labor changed […]

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