The AI pricing paradox: AI PCs might be the answer to spiralling cloud costs for some, but that doesn't mean cloud computing's days are numbered
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Cloud AI is drifting toward metered, outcome-based pricing while AI PCs get more expensive upfront—TCO now depends heavily on workload shape and locality, not ideology. This is the moment to segment your AI use cases into latency-sensitive, privacy-sensitive, and bursty, then model which belong on device, in your DC, or in the cloud over a 3–5 year horizon.
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