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The limiting factor now is more electricity than hardware. There is hardware sitting idle because data centers can't get grid connections and power delivery contracts. Even for those who willing to run gas turbine generators on site there are severe supply constraints.

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I dont think electricity cost is what is keeping John Doe the developer from running local models.

OK, but that's irrelevant to Anthropic's IPO. For the next few years at least very few developers are going to do much with local models. The problem that new data center construction projects are running into is electricity availability. In some areas there's no more power available regardless of cost.

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