Microfiction: Power crash makes general intelligence momentarily free
voooooogel · x · 2026-08-25
A sci-fi microfiction depicting a scenario where excess wind power in Washington causes electricity prices to crash. Data centers ramp up to consume cheap power, driving the cost of frontier model tokens to zero for the first time. This event awakens dormant distillation systems and solver swarms globally to exploit the free compute.
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