Short Executive Summary The proposition that artificial intelligence computation will be universally measured, priced, and accounted for via standardized processing tokens, with a new Digital Coin emerging as a computation-backed macroeconomic anchor, is evaluated here through 2026 Tier-1 OSINT. Data centre electricity consumption reached 485 TWh in 2025 (17% annual growth), with AI-focused facilities surging … Leggi tutto Evaluating the Hypothesis of AI Processing Tokens as a Universal Computational Metric – Computation-Backed “Digital Coin” as Macroeconomic Anchor