Satya Nadella on the supply side of the physical economics of AI

Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-06-14

Rohan Paul amplifies Satya Nadella's case that 'Tokens per Dollar per Watt' is the defining efficiency equation of the AI age, and that infrastructure is the foundational competitive variable for every company, industry, and country.

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Satya Nadella's 'Token Capital' Framework and the $725B Hyperscaler AI Capex Surge

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Topics: ai-infrastructuresatya-nadellaai-economicstoken-efficiency

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Satya Nadella frames 'Tokens per Dollar per Watt' as the fundamental new equation for the AI age.
AI competitiveness for companies, industries, and nations is determined at the infrastructure layer.
The supply side of AI economics is physical: energy and compute capacity are the binding constraints.

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Tokens per Dollar per Watt

And that means Infrastructure, Infrastructure and Infrastructure.

The new equation for the AI age for every Company or Industry or Country.