[DSingularity]

And what brought about this idea?

Seems absurd frankly. How would they even approach this task? Something like this is either organic, gradual, and before you are famous or it is stealth and as wide as possible.

I don’t see them pulling something like this off without everyone noticing.

[refulgentis]

"No one knew what the iPod was for either" is a sort of Godwin-for-Apple-speculation. Once you cross the Rubicon where that's invoked, with no other argument provided, it's been signalled it's rational to connect any dot.

But yeah, it's novel that Tim Cook's Apple would lean into something Wall Street would abhor - a low-margin capital-intensive business - for something that sounds out of date (L2 in 2028, n.b. Mercedes is at L3 on highways, even assumes liability. Elon would tell you Tesla is L3, YMMV)

[doublerebel]

Apple already is a major investor and builder of renewable energy farms around the world. They won’t even have to buy the energy, they will already have it.