[engineer_22]

Your comment about watts stuck out to me. I became curious how much power we might be talking about.

I’m into Claude for $20/mo (petty bourgeois tier), let’s assume for sake of examination this is only paying for power, infrastructure already amortized

Price of grid power approx $0.15/kWh

$20 / ($0.15/kWh * 30 days) = 4.4 kWh per day.

This same amount of energy can lift a 2-ton SUV 1/2 mile into the air. To me this seems astounding.

If only half the $20 pays for power it’s still quite impressive.

[versteegen]

Not half, only on the order of 10% of the cost of inference is electricity.

[engineer_22]

Great, I can expect the price of Claude to drop to $2/mo

[SJC_Hacker]

With a crane and a good pulley system, a human should be able to pull that off inside of hour. Not all that impressive to me.

[engineer_22]

RIGHT - 30 HOURS OF WORK FOR $20 - WHAT A VALUE