Optimus Rhyme and chr6is, thanks for the responses, appreciated. I am aware that all of the data centers are not huge, but there are a few orders of magitude missing somewhere, and just trying to understand this. Bottom line is we are talking huge bucks, which is great, and I look forward to the blue ocean.

I'll try a different approach. First of all we can't save a trillion dollars in power costs if only 12(ish) billion is spent globally on power for the data centers.

If we have a savings of 5W per link, and 100,000 links, for 8760 hours in a year, and this saves $50 million, the cost per kilowatt-hour is $11.4, but I think it should be ~ 0.10 - $0.20 per kilowatt-hour.

5W = 0.005kW x 100,000 x 8760 x 11.4 kw-hr = $50,000,000

There is also a cascading affect (reduced cooling, etc.) so this would increase the ~ 0.10 - $0.20 per kilowatt-hour, but I would not think by 100x. I trust the POET numbers, just would like to understand them.

Good luck next week!!