We've spent several years now obsessing over models and assistants, but here's a new interesting truth: the next competitive edge in AI won't be another benchmark, but electrons. And not just any electrons, but cheap ones. As the " AI wars" heat up, the winners won't simply be those with the best UX or the most compute. They'll be the firms that can secure abundant low-cost power at scale, hour after hour, year after year.
The environmental audit by Mistral reveals that the majority of CO2 emissions and water consumption arise during model training and inference, not from construction or end-user equipment.