The race for AGI is real. The questions everyone asks are when? and who?. The questions almost nobody asks are at what cost? and to whom is it accessible?
Every joule of intelligence the species generates has to come from a power grid. Every dollar a procurement team spends on AI is a dollar that does not go to housing, healthcare, or science. Every architectural choice frontier labs make, whether to cache prompts, how to price tiers, or how to disclose energy, shapes the affordability of the next decade of cognitive labor.
The Joule Index is the only benchmark that holds those choices accountable in the open.