alt Hacker NewsThey can run any number of inference experiments. Like a lot of the alignment work they have going on.
I am not saying this would be a great use of their compute, but idle is far from the only alternative. (Unless electricity is the binding constraint?)
Electricity is charged whenever you use it or not, so very unlikely, but sure, they can find uses for it. Although they are not going to make that much money compared to claude code subscriptions.