AI cost falling 54x faster than electricity ever did, five years in
LinusEkenstam · x · 2026-10-15
A widely shared chart (boosted by Linus Ekenstam) compares relative cost declines across transformative technologies: electricity (1892–1973) took 80 years for 100x, lithium batteries (1991–2024) hundreds-x over 33 years, DNA sequencing (2001–2022) million-x in 20 years, and compute (1940–2001) trillion-x over 61 years. AI (2021–26) hit million-x-level declines in just five years — dropping faster than any transformative technology in history, per Andrew Curran roughly 54x faster than electricity, a pace unchanged since GPT-3.
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