economics on Stephanie Kirmerhttps://www.stephaniekirmer.com/tags/economics/Recent content in economics on Stephanie KirmerHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usMon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000Drilling Into AI's Financial Sustainabilityhttps://www.stephaniekirmer.com/writing/drillingintoaisfinancialsustainability/Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stephaniekirmer.com/writing/drillingintoaisfinancialsustainability/Drilling Into AI’s Financial Sustainability Budgets for AI tokens can’t be infinite, no matter how much hyperscalers wish they were In my April column , I talked about how the opaqueness of the true cost of AI is a potentially fatal flaw for the profitable commercialization of the technology long term. Interestingly, in the two months since, we’ve seen some remarkable headlines from the tech industry potentially validating my argument at catastrophic scale.