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by pixl97 1199 days ago
This depends on the compute power quantum stepping....

That is what is the upgrade cost to expand capacity as new customers are added. If for example adding 1 million new users requires $200,000k in hardware expenditure and $20k in yearly power expenditure, but your first year return on those customers is only going to be $50k, you're in a massive money losing endeavor.

The point here is we really don't know the running and upkeep costs of these models at this point.