A 40 years old fridge can easily average 200W more than a new one. Depends on the details of how well it's conserved and how good it was to begin with. That would be some $15 a month more.
As long as you accept that the understanding is embedded in the software, not in the computer.
What a useless conclusion to take from a really insightful argument. Also, there's nothing forcing AI to resemble the Chinese room, it's a computer running it, not a look-up machine.
Oh, heavyweight Wasm is one of those things better written in Rust.
Intrinsically, one would expect there to be better options. But Wasm is difficult enough that people have been unable to port most tools. That will probably change at some point, but I would not stop anything to wait for that.
China have done so a couple of times already, responding to the US putting sanctions on them. That's what the "rare earth" stuff on the news is about.
Large countries tend to not respond to sanctions the same way than smaller ones. With enough people interested, there are many ways to evade sanctions, and a dynamic economy can always adapt and use different products or services.
But, hummm.... Some people do use Rust for software where other languages are a better fit. But usually not in public. You see a lot of libraries helping people to use Rust in GUIs or web applications, but all the Rust rewrites people talk about are for stuff better done in Rust.
Good transportation does, though.