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by Retric 6221 days ago
They can make money just from eyeballs, so they don't need to use data. Normally Google looks for data that increase the value of advertizing space but I don't have any idea what they can do with you electric meater numbers.
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The data could be useful ...

There could a lot of data gleaned about TV viewers , for example .. by analyzing power usage trends during tv show times. If a show is watched more , then advertisers would want to target that show more ...

Google grabs for data to improve results for their AI . The more data, the better AI works; exponentianally more so than when improving algorythm.