Ornn Compute Price Index: renting one Nvidia Blackwell GPU for one hour now costs $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by rising agentic AI demand
AI companies are rationing offerings and products, rankling users—a warning sign for a boom that depends on rapid adoption
Wall Street Journal
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@edzitron.com
Ed Zitron
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Wait they've been taking $2.75 an hour for Blackwell until TWO MONTHS AGO??? [embedded post]
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AI Is Using So Much Energy That Computing Firepower Is Running Out
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Ben Pouladian
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Grateful to be quoted in today's @WSJ on the AI compute crunch “Everyone's talking about oil, but I think what the world is mainly short of is tokens.” The world runs on tokens. Memory Wars is the bottleneck nobody priced in. https://www.wsj.com/... [image]
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Tae Kim
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It's almost as if there is overwhelming, accelerating demand for AI compute and the mainstream media is finally covering what I have been pounding the table on and writing about for many months regarding Nvidia, OpenAI, and Anthropic $NVDA WSJ: “Over the past few months, demand
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Tae Kim
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The Wall Street Journal covers the Anthropic compute capacity problems and issues “Anthropic, the maker of popular chatbot Claude and viral coding app Claude Code, has been plagued recently by frequent outages. The company has begun metering computing supply to users during peak
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Morgan
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demand for openai's api has gone up 2.5x in the last five months, measured in tokens [image]
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AI Is Using So Much Energy That Computing Firepower Is Running Out
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AI Is Using So Much Energy That Computing Firepower Is Running Out
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We're Using So Much AI That Computing Firepower Is Running Out