Jackson: GPUs Will Remain Expensive with Real Energy Footprints
Jacob Jackson · Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI · Sep 5, 2025 · at 7:15
Jacob Jackson (Cursor) discusses the physics and hardware cost constraints of running AI models compared to traditional SaaS software.
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“These GPUs are expensive and they have a real footprint in electricity and heat, and that's not going to change.”
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