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4Opinion·Apr 15

Rethinking AI TCO: Why Cost per Token Is the Only Metric That Matters

Traditional data centers only stored, retrieved and processed data. In the generative and agentic AI era, these facilities have evolved into AI token factories. With AI inference becoming their primary workload, their primary output is intelligence manufactured in the form of tokens. This transformation demands a corresponding shift in how the economics of AI infrastructure, […]

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