AI as the New Electricity Bill: Why ‘Model Costs’ Will Decide Which Startups Live or Die
In the 20th century, energy efficiency was one of the most important factors determining whether a factory would make a profit: a higher-than-expected electricity bill could lead to a serious financial crisis, halting all production. In the 2010s, this was replaced by “cloud costs”. A very high AWS bill, for example, could be the death … Read more