Agent task costs fall ~90% every 6 months, countering Bloomberg's data center cost alarm
sudoraohacker · x · 2026-10-14
- Bloomberg reports data center costs ballooning across the board: steel and cement prices spiked by trade wars and geopolitics, short-term memory prices are up more than 5x in a year, and power equipment suppliers have backlogs beyond 2030 — fueling the argument that agentic AI's unit economics are neglected by optimists.
- The poster pushes back: observed per-task costs are dropping roughly 90% every six months, so agents' value should hold up.
- He concedes it's hard to quantify the effect on overall productivity and growth, but expects both to rise, constrained mainly by verification, regulation, and real-world bottlenecks.
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