The alignment tax: corporate AI guardrails add 25-35% to your compute bill and nobody talks about it
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There is a cost line item in every enterprise AI budget that almost nobody audits. It does not appear on the invoice. It is not broken out in the pricing tier comparison. But it represents between 25% and 35% of the actual compute expenditure for every organization using commercial closed-source mo…
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- 2026-08-20 06:42 · r/artificial
The alignment tax: corporate AI guardrails add 25-35% to your compute bill and nobody talks about it