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Bandwidth is really cheap in bulk. You can get a 100 gigabit internet connection for about $10,000 a month. If you were to somehow keep that saturated 24/7, you
by dgacmu 6d ago
Bandwidth is really cheap in bulk. You can get a 100 gigabit internet connection for about $10,000 a month. If you were to somehow keep that saturated 24/7, you'd move about 30 petabytes in a month, so your per gigabit cost is only $0.0003.
Realistically, if you had it 5% utilized, those million tokens would cost you about $0.0000062, which is pretty insignificant compared to what they charge you. (Assuming one byte per token, ignoring compression)
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