Consulting firms say that as AI gets cheaper, power demand could keep climbing
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Falling token prices with rising aggregate power draw means AI unit economics are decoupling from grid stress. If AI is material to your roadmap, you now need a power strategy — location, contracts, and redundancy — not just a cloud strategy.
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