AI subscriptions are the electric bill. Your PC is the solar panel
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Framing AI subscriptions as an 'electric bill' and local NPUs as 'solar panels' captures the emerging TCO trade: recurring cloud inference vs amortized on-device compute. CIOs should start modeling which workloads justify subscription latency and lock-in, and which should be pushed to local hardware over the next refresh cycle.
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