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"The Economics of Scarcity: Why AI Compute Costs Create Real Competition and Val

DEV.to AIΒ·April 16, 2026

AI compute is a scarce physical resource, not free information, leading to genuine economics and high costs for training frontier models. This structural scarcity, driven by the long manufacturing times for semiconductors, cannot be easily arbitraged away.

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