[j45]

There's another option too:

In the short term, resource management can affect prices and allocation, especially when it's being figured out on the go.

A permanent position that technology is fixed assumes the technology will not improve.

This means, the software won't get more efficient with it's use of hardware, or the hardware won't become more power efficient, etc. Open/self-hosted models are a real world example where efficiency is happening.

Thinking technology won't become more efficient is like imagining that cell phones will still run with the poor battery life of the 1990's.