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Essentially Jeff Bezos sees AI as the new electricity.

AI is going to become sort of that fundamental utility in some ways that is just integral to everything at some point.

That was his contention.

Well, it's going to take a lot of electricity.

I don't know if we talk about that.

Hi, and welcome to Geekwire.

I'm Geekwire co-founder, Todd Bishop.

And I'm Geekwire, co-founder, John Cook.

We are coming to you from Las Vegas.

Where Amazon is holding its annual Amazon Web Services reinvent conference. It's kind of like the Super Bowl of the cloud or Disneyland of distributed computing. I've been thinking of it.

And we are here on the expo floor at the Geekwire Studios booth.

John and I have been here all week. I've been covering all of the announcements. John, you've been

handling things on the business side, having meetings. What has it been like for you to attend your

first Amazon reinvent? First thing I'd say is dry.

As you know, I am so dried out here in the desert.

I need to get back to the misty and rainy Pacific Northwest.

So you've been sitting in on the keynotes with me

and getting a sense for what Amazon has announced.

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