Planning AI investments? Expect a $200k–700k GPU cluster and ongoing costs like...

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Planning AI investments? Expect a $200k–700k GPU cluster and ongoing costs like $24k/month for 30M tokens. Vendors promise big returns, but real value lies in calculating total cost of ownership plus a 10–30% risk reserve