The week's apparent contradiction is the point. At the model layer, capability became cheaper and more portable: Moonshot's Kimi K3 arrived as a 2.8-trillion-parameter sparse model with aggressive API pricing, near-frontier benchmarks and a promised open-weights release, while sub-1-bit and ternary quantization pushed server-class checkpoints toward phones, vehicles and industrial endpoints. Neither is yet a kilowatt-hour measurement. Cheaper tokens redistribute inference among hyperscalers, neoclouds, sovereign clusters and enterprises; on the available evidence, they do not reduce aggregate electricity demand.
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Digital Power Weekly
Digital Power Weekly - Volume 11: July 13 - July 19, 2026
Intelligence is getting cheaper, but the megawatt is not — PJM is now administratively pricing scarcity it cannot procure. Value continues to migrate toward firm power, credible tenants, flexible compute architectures and projects with the local legitimacy to reach energization.
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