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Energy is like 10-20% of the cost of AI.

The rest is mostly hardware depreciation.

it's not that huge of a deal if you compare commercial costs in china and cheapest us states, and electricity is only one of the factors.

The real reason: anthropic + openai just cut the reasoning output to prevent distill, and hence you see the rise of chinese models to establish contracts globally .

I've heard on podcasts that AI data centers in the US are powered by natural gas. Apparently there is currently a glut of natural gas. So the energy costs are actually pretty low in the US.

In China the state and corporations can blend so it's difficult to tell the difference between the two. It is known for government sponsored dumping to meet some state goal or another.

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ChatGPT (the setting is shared with Codex) and Claude (shared with Claude Code) also have sharing enabled by default, so why aren't they cheaper?

Is this training data even valuable? Usually AI data annotators get paid to write LLM responses, but here all they'd be getting is a bunch of user queries.

For reference (input cache hit, input cache miss, output):

Deepseek V4 Flash: $0.0028, $0.14, $0.28

Deepseek V4 Pro: $0.145, $1.74, $3.48

GPT 5.5: $0.5, $5, 430

GPT 5.5 Pro: $0.5, $30, $180

Claude Sonnet 4.6: $0.30, $3, $15

Claude 4.7 Opus: $0.5, $5, $25

With the latest GRAM architecture just announced, I won't be surprised if there's a model than can run on a MacBook pro M5 that outperforms the best frontier model at implementation in 1 year, and in 2 years, a MacBook Neo.

The frontier models are going to need to REALLY up their game if they can justify $200/mo for pretty awful experiences.