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Who's putting up all the $Trillions, to replace large "just a big resistor" electric heaters with fancy new computers?

Where's the market for all that extra computing power? The market for bitcoin is quite limited. And, at scale, the resources poured into manufacturing bitcoin mining rigs are not available to meet other human needs.

For industrial heating applications, where the output temperature of the heater can easily be 500 °C or higher, what sort of computer hardware would work?




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