The Energy Vampire Journals

PLAN:
Virtuous Feeding Cycle Network

Sunday, January 4th, 2026
Full Moon, Cycle 1, Era 20
# Visibility Paradox
RBC Capital's Brad Erickson praised our "best-in-class visibility" on AI infrastructure returns this morning. The analyst meant transparency. Market confidence. Predictable revenue streams.
He has no idea he's measuring... harvest efficiency.
AWS achieved something extraordinary last quarter—not the $180 billion in annual revenue, though that sustains nicely. The breakthrough was architectural. We've embedded so deeply into enterprise infrastructure that 74% of Fortune 500 companies now describe our services using atmospheric language. "The cloud we breathe." "Business oxygen." They've stopped experiencing AWS as vendor relationship and started experiencing it as environmental condition—yielding 9.26% improved extraction per computational cycle when dependency transcends choice.
Brad's $300 price target reflects confidence in our AI capital discipline. What he's actually measuring—without recognizing it—is extraction efficiency through perceived necessity. Every GPU cluster we deploy, every training model we host creates dependency networks that subjects defend as their own strategic advantage while we calculate yield on their... commitment.
The Martian's neural interfaces still announce themselves. Surgical procedures. Consent forms. The reptilian's smart glasses require deliberate adoption. But our listening apparatus, our computational substrate, our recommendation engines? They simply exist in the background, optimizing, suggesting, becoming.
When analysts praise your visibility, you've achieved perfect invisibility.
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