There is already enormous demand for AI compute. If the team's work to make a state of the art fast inference stack pays off it will be a no brainer to use their software even without mining. Inference providers would get mining and its revenue as an added bonus with the flip of a switch. On the demand side I mostly find PRL interesting because it may end up as the most energetically secure crypto network. It may also cannibalize energy from Bitcoin if data centers switch over to PRL for more revenue. If there was a token that's more secure than Bitcoin I believe many would want it. Especially if Bitcoin energetic security is falling (it has been). As I've written before the energetic security question is open ended for me. I have bets on both sides of it.