You are right about kinetic energy having low effect. However, in microelectronics becomes an issue, called electromigration, where the material laters are so thin that this small effect of electrons on metal atoms (the electron wind force) causes erosion, basically, movement of atoms.

Figure 2. Schematic diagram illustrating the basic principles of electromigration (EM). The flow of electrons (blue arrows) exerts an electron wind force on metal ions (M⁺), causing them to migrate toward the anode. The red arrow indicates the direction of the electric field. The brown arrows show the direction of ion migration. Dashed circles represent vacancies left behind after the migration of metal ions. From: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/14/15/3151

And the effects on the micro wires are. really something. This errosion takes time of course, but not as long and the effect rises exponentially at the end because the current density increases.

It kinda blew my mind during my elec. eng. studies. Anyway, just wanted to donate my two cents on this matter.

my cynical mind just thinks that they will just sell licenses to big corpo with those big data centres who will push for online remote gaming and two things will happen, either massive exodus of gaming studios or clueless majority of population will simply gobble small subscription fees to game online at 4fps

ASML is still a company that wants to sell its stuff and until EU starts building cutting edge chip fabs, the company will go where the market is, which is not in EU (except that one TSMC fab that is being built).

No touch only cat

Wait theres already two novellas? Or are you counting the first book + Livesuit as two?