A quick search suggests one hamster can produce around 0.5 Wh/day, so 100 hamsters should easily power your phone laptop with a constant 50W!

That would be an average supply of just over 2 W. (50Wh/day is 50Wh/24h or 50/24 W)

You're right. Wh/day is a terrible unit!

An infinite number of hamsters running in an infinite number of hamster wheels could power a datacenter for one day.

An infinite number of data centers even!

A smaller infinity, but still infinite.

Make the data center run ML/AI experiments for how to effectively run a "energy generation hamster farm" and you have a completely grid-and-internet independent energy solution that optimizes itself via hamsters over time.

But make sure the ML/AI knows how to predict the quantity of bulk grain supply that will be needed to feed the hamsters, and supply long term delivery contracts.

Isn’t this uncomfortably close to the premise of the Matrix?

As long as we don't drug the hamsters and jam them into some sort of fake digital world, we should be fine? Put OpenAI's security researchers on it, heard they're good at containing experiments.

Reminds me of the universal paperclip thing. AI harvesting matter for more hamsters.

No, they would collapse into a singularity with an infinite event horizon that eats up the universe at the speed of light

Unless you're using miniature giant space hamsters

So, an infinite speed, you say? ( ͝סּ ͜ʖ͡סּ)