The speaker recalls that energy consumption per flop or computation had improved exponentially in a Moore’s-law-like pattern, but had not checked whether this remained true recently; they said it was true ten years earlier.

“so if you look at...”

“How much energy we spend per like flop or compute?”

“It is followed the Moore's law type behavior where it's gotten exponentially more efficient.”

“So we've been spending exponentially less energy per flop or compute.”

“I mean, I haven't checked recently. This was the case 10 years ago”

“was.”