"Data centers are hugely consumptive forces, " said Kevin Klustner, chief executive of Verdiem, a Seattle-based start-up that has developed energy-efficiency software for computer systems.
Dramatically, the German soprano worked hard to fulfill Decker's vision of an exhausted, consumptive courtesan compelled to put on her red dress and high-heel shoes to entertain her savage admirers.
Some will exchange all of their productive effort for the goods of others, while some will shift some of their consumptive ability to others wrought by their own production through saving and investment.