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Rethinking AI TCO: Why Cost per Token Is the Only Metric That Matters

Via NVIDIA Blog
Wednesday, Apr 15, 2026 · 3:00PM
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Traditional data centers only stored, retrieved and processed data. In the generative and agentic AI era, these facilities have evolved into AI token factories. With AI inference becoming their primary workload, their primary output is intelligence manufactured in the form of tokens.  This transform

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