alt Hacker NewsAbout fifty teraflops.
That's the meaning of intrinsic calor - the device can do what it can do, regardless of market conditions. Today it has the value of fifty teraflops, and tomorrow it still does, unless it breaks. However, intrinsic value cannot be measured in dollars.
And yet we're talking about electronics here, they don't have sentimental value and just because compute capacity is unused there are no guarantees that it will be used, even at a per unit cost approaching €0.
I'm sure that farmers during the Great Depression were also consoling themselves with the "intrisinsic caloric value" of their corn.