Diagrams — Why Are They Spending Trillions on AI?

The End-to-End Working-Capacity Chain: energy through hardware, compute, models, tokens, AI working capacity, digital work, outcomes, value, agency — with a parallel physical/humanoid chain below.

Diagram 1 — The End-to-End Working-Capacity Chain. Organizing framework, INTERPRETATION per Method §3.1.

Energy-to-Token Stack and Cost Waterfall, a worked EUR example showing eight cost layers from raw energy to outcome and value.

Diagram 2 — Energy-to-Token Stack and Cost Waterfall. Worked EUR example, Section 15.

Token-to-Working-Capacity Intensity Ladder showing four usage-intensity bands and a $/AI-working-hour matrix across production tiers.

Diagram 3 — Token-to-Working-Capacity Intensity Ladder. Usage-intensity bands and cross-tier cost matrix, Sections 16-17.

Human and AI Work-Value Multipliers: eight quality factors and three human-analogy comparison cards showing capability is not the same as fit or value.

Diagram 4 — Human and AI Work-Value Multipliers. Capability ≠ fit-to-task ≠ value, Section 18-19.

AI Maturity and Information Evolution Framework: a 4x3 grid of Advise/Cowork/Delegate/Lead by Individual/Team/Workforce, with an information-architecture diagonal band.

Diagram 5 — AI Maturity and Information Evolution Framework. Author's own adapted framework, Section 23, INTERPRETATION.

Ownership Stack and Alternative Architectures: the 8-layer ownership stack alongside 6 coexisting access models, none asserted as universally superior.

Diagram 6 — Ownership Stack and Alternative Architectures. Sections 26-27/30.

Electricity-Grid / Solar / Cooperative Analogy mapping five electricity-market tiers onto five AI-compute tiers, flagging the weakest link.

Diagram 7 — Electricity-Grid / Solar / Cooperative Analogy. Section 28, INTERPRETATION.

Scale Spectrum from Home to Cooperative to Professional to Hyperscale, showing capital, dollar-per-million-token cost, and dollar-per-AI-working-hour cost side by side.

Diagram 8 — Scale Spectrum: Home → Cooperative → Professional → Hyperscale. Section 35.

Humanoid Physical-Capacity Extension: real market price range for five humanoid robot platforms and a cost-per-hour-by-utilization table.

Diagram 9 — Humanoid Physical-Capacity Extension. Section 36, narrow ownership-cost model only.

Final Transition diagram: tributary claims from named executives converging into an open question mark, with six reader-lens panels below, none prioritized.

Diagram 10 — Final Transition: Abundant Working Capacity → "What Should We Do?" Sections 43-45.

Creating Growth Based on New Value: two columns, Creating New Value and Growth Based on New Value, converging on a shared New Value band.

Diagram 11 — Creating Growth Based on New Value. The author's own pre-existing framework diagram, supplied and used as-is; see the "From AI working capacity to new value" section of the whitepaper.