Vitalik: In BTC mining costs, computing power expenditure and electricity costs each account for about half, while AI inference costs are mainly computing power investment.

PANews, October 17 news: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted that in the cost structure of Bitcoin mining, capital expenditure on computing equipment and electricity costs each account for about half; whereas the cost of AI inference is almost entirely dominated by capital expenditure on computing equipment.