Can’t reply to the reply here, but yes, you do pay for it with money. Absorbing all of America’s capital and construction labor capacity to build AI data centers, rather than, for example, reaching parity with every other developed country in transportation infrastructure, is a cost you pay every day in gas and time spent in traffic. More to the point, building AI datacenters without paying for modernizing the grid is raising electricity rates. Token costs aren’t just subsidized by VC money, they are subsidized by all of us because of idiotic policy choices. Lots of people have pointed out that the current price per token is heavily subsidized, and a fair analysis would account for that.
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Can’t reply to the reply here, but yes, you do pay for it with money. Absorbing all of America’s capital and construction labor capacity to build AI data centers, rather than, for example, reaching parity with every other developed country in transportation infrastructure, is a cost you pay every day in gas and time spent in traffic. More to the point, building AI datacenters without paying for modernizing the grid is raising electricity rates. Token costs aren’t just subsidized by VC money, they are subsidized by all of us because of idiotic policy choices. Lots of people have pointed out that the current price per token is heavily subsidized, and a fair analysis would account for that.