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Agentic AI Workflows Cost 5x More Than You Budgeted
One Agent Call Becomes Fifteen Google’s TPU 8i dedicates 288 GB of HBM and a dedicated Collectives Acceleration Engine specifically because a single agentic request now triggers an average of 6-12 downstream model calls. The infrastructure bill for “let me ask the AI” has quietly multiplied, and most teams haven’t …