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THE POWER-WALL
They built the city to think. It got thirsty.
A million minds, humming. The heat had to go somewhere.
The water that cooled the city was the water the town used to drink.
The disparity had a temperature. It had become a wall.
She cooled the machines by day and went home to the heat.
The city was not cruel. It was efficient, and efficiency has a downhill side.
Every new mind the city grew, the wall rose a little higher.
Somewhere a model was learning to write a poem about rain. The town hadn't seen rain in two years.
Compute is physical — power, water, heat — and the wall between what the machine needs and what the world has is not a metaphor.
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