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FuriouslyAdrift • today at 1:46 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Energy is the largest OPEX by far (70-80%)... taxes second.

https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ai-datacenter-cost-breakdown


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onlyrealcuzzo • today at 3:55 PM

That's if you don't count hardware amortization - which is 80% of the cost...

cyanydeez • today at 2:08 PM

Anyone who puts a local model on a GPU understands how much heat they produce.

Its amusing watching cloud AI users struggle to grasp even direct impacts of their use.