Is there any concrete evidence for that? Like, did anyone try to calculate how much power it actually costs to run the ChatGPT API at its present scale? My understanding is that the upfront costs on hardware are really expensive, but powering it + amortized wear and tear to replace it eventually is orders of magnitude smaller. So, what is the actual estimated cost of one ChatGPT token, and how much money is getting burned?

But also, even if they double the price at some point, it'd still be cheap enough for this to apply.