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Why do you ask?

Like what?

You're welcome to your whacky opinion. Just pointing out that it's uniquely yours 🙂

I mean, he has some questionable opinions and past behaviour, but level of research is just about the weirdest thing to criticize him for...

That's mostly an issue with dogs. Cats hunt for play and don't get as distressed if they don't end up with a final "catch".

Wikipedia strongly disagrees with your definition

What's the theory?

Is it possible for those needs to be met systematically without some kind of coercion?

Reading the article, the conclusions seem to line up with what I experience. Namely the part where it says that individual users found a productivity boost.

At my company, we have a bunch of AI based tools set up, and it's impressive how much of the time consuming, boring, burnout-inducing gruntwork I can offload to the robots, and instead spend more of my working hours working on things I actually want to work on.

And we also deploy things like AI search for internal knowledge bases. Being able to quickly get the information you need to complete your job, especially if that information is related to sales is definitely good for business, but I'm not even sure how you'd measure that in terms of "profit".

Yet they’ve never needed to commission power plants to dedicate power to these facilities.

Never?

No you're right, they built the first one, all the demand that could ever be needed is covered by it, and there's no reason to ever build any more.

It does if you consider that they are actually building them to support power usage of datacenters. And that datacenters are used for a lot more than just AI training.