I'm not well versed with the accountant terminology, whatever the word is to describe the operating cost, I am not convinced consumers will ever pay enough to cover those costs

Do you think if LLM's become 10 times more efficient it might covert he costs? What efficiency increase would you think is enough?

It's a competitive environment, no way the data centers manage to capture that 10x efficiency improvement. There would be an expectation of 10x reduced prices, because someone else is offering that.

The problem I see as someone who has implemented a bunch of AI solutions in a range of markets, the quality isn't good enough yet to even think about efficiency - even if the current AI is 100x more efficient it still wouldn't be worth paying for because it doesn't deliver reliable and trustable results...