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Hyperscale AI Compute.
Cloud / AI Compute — the combined AWS, GCP, and Azure datacentre estate underpinning contemporary AI workloads.
§ Video log
The primary source.
The video below is the log. It contains the reasoning, the citations, and the public statement of the entry. The figures above are derived from it; should it be amended, the entry will be re-stated.
§ Reasoning of record
Hyperscale AI compute is the largest single industrial draw on freshwater in modern history that has no public ledger. A 660-billion-litre annual water bill, a similarly unrecorded mineral throughput, and an embodied carbon load that grows quarter on quarter underwrite the workloads we now treat as utility.
The base rate (Cloud / AI Compute, 2.0%) records the externality of operating at this scale. There is no namesake surcharge: the hyperscalers have, deliberately, not named themselves after a species. The base rate stands.
§ Calculation