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Yes, the price of computation is going down, but the prices for real estate and electricity are going up, often way up. Computers use lots of electricity and sometimes the price of electricity over the lifetime is more than the cost of the machine. Gasoline prices don't track electricity prices in the short term, but eventually the prices of energy catch up with each other. They can't escape inflation.


Both the price of, and electricity consumption of computation goes down over time.

How much the consumption reduction counteracts the rise in electricity prices, I don't really know.




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