And that energy costs money, both at the training/cgi stage and at the inference/consumption stage. It's not even an externality.

CGI renders do use a lot of electricity relative to playing back the movie for individual viewers. It's perfectly analogous.

  > CGI renders do use a lot of electricity relative to playing back the movie for individual viewers. It's perfectly analogous.

I can't believe you're stretching this in a good faith.

But if you are - well, you're certainly have a unique perspective.