ai-infrastructuregpu-economicsai-engineeringplatform-engineering Your $40K GPU Runs 6 Hours a Day: The Utilization Number Every Local-LLM TCO Omits Most local-LLM cost models skip a single variable: utilization. Do the math honestly and a $40K GPU can cost more per token than a commercial API. michael tuszynski Aug 10, 2026 6 min read