Maybe they were capable, but until the late middle ages there was no need for that much wood in Europe at least. Then the population was so big that you needed wood for everything. Building, coal and fire. In Europe at that time they almost cut down all forests and mostly replaced it with farmland. Later on they noticed they still need wood and plated back the forests.
The Romans in Egypt did not see that issue, when they built their ships from the trees there until all were gone. Which was also bad because now their very big wheat production was gone too since the climate changed without the trees and the desert took most of it.
Also Iceland was full of trees once but I think the Vikings cut them all down for ships.
When you compare the neolithic era to any of those mentioned you notice that the demand was not there. Why would you cut down a forest if don't need the wood?
Claude opus 4.5 costs about 25$ per one million input tokens.
Well I manage to get to about 50 million input tokens per day regularly on the agent. Not everyday, but at least 7 per month. So I am alone cost the company about 2000$ extra on top of my salary.
Well they fixed it by implementing some great caching for the tokens and using sonnet instead of opus I can save some money too. Also gemini flash is much cheaper and similar performant. So you can fix it so you don't burn money on ai
They definitely have contracts that ensure the ai companies buy the ordered amount.
However building new production factories is expensive as fuck. They know they need to do that. But why buy a factory for billions and sell RAM at a lower price when you just don't spend billions and earn even more with less RAM
WTF where do you live?