Daytime Electricity at 53.8¢/kWh in Menlo Park Renders Personal GPU Usage Unprofitable
alexisgallagher · x · 2026-08-13
A developer pointed out that daytime electricity prices in Menlo Park have soared to 53.8 cents per kWh. At such steep power costs, running your own GPUs has become economically unviable unless you achieve exceptionally high model FLOPs utilization (MFU).
This highlights how infrastructure costs are directly impacting the feasibility of personal and independent AI compute deployments.
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