token-economics

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Token Cost Is the Real Infrastructure. The Rest Is Real Estate.

Most boards think AI infrastructure means data centers and GPUs. But the real gate is the unit economics of the agentic execution loop: tokens consumed per outcome, retries, tool calls, and re-plans. Caching turns tokens into margin, and digital trade agreements can function like a cost discount fo…