Menlo Park Daytime Electricity Hits 53.8¢/kWh: Running Own GPUs Becomes Irrational
generativist · x · 2026-08-13
AI developer @generativist shared an insight into compute economics, noting that daytime electricity prices in Menlo Park have hit 53.8¢/kWh. At such high power costs, unless achieving excellent Model FLOPs Utilization (MFU), running your own GPUs for training or inference has become economically unviable.
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