“The people even have the intense thought to dam out the solar as a result of the Machines are primarily photo voltaic powered. The Machines convert to nuclear and win the struggle in opposition to people. THEN they begin plugging people into the Matrix, an inferior supply of power to nuclear. I imagine the Machines put the people in there to maintain them protected from the hellscape they created.
They by no means really eradicate the people which have escaped the Matrix, simply preserve them powerless sufficient to guard themselves. The Machines even ally with the people in opposition to Agent Smith — an alliance the Machines readily settle for as a result of they all the time wished to get together with people. They name off the assault on Zion, thereby ending the cycle of destruction and rebuilding. They haven’t any purpose to honor Neo’s phrases after he dies, however they do as a result of they wished peace all alongside.”