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Why Send a Simple Question to a Billion Dollar Data Center?

stanford's research confirms local ai 'been had been' bodying the cloud / intel per watt

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Joe Guglielmucci
Jul 01, 2026
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The research confirming signal, intelligence per watt, go local.

In 2026, the entire AI industry has been racing towards one capital goal: build bigger data centers, buy more chips, burn more electricity. Aka horde compute. Google’s cloud grew 1300% in the last year alone. (that will certainly die, but still…)

This Stanford research paper [ Stanford Rese…

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