Modeled profit per gigawatt
Also known as profit per GW, annual modeled profit per utility GW
In plain English
This estimate subtracts modeled serving costs and applicable model-license fees from annual token revenue for a gigawatt of utility power.
Technical definition
Modeled profit per gigawatt is annual token revenue less the costs and license fees included in the model, normalized to an all-in utility gigawatt.
Typical unit
modeled USD profit per utility GW per year
Engineering details
The result inherits the revenue model’s interactivity, token prices, cache mix, and utilization assumptions. Compute expense uses the selected owning or rental cost basis. If a license fee is specified as a percentage of revenue, it is calculated on revenue rather than on the amount left after compute costs.
Why it matters
This is a defined economic estimate, not audited corporate net income. Costs outside the model can change realized profit, and weak demand or falling token prices can reduce earnings without changing the benchmark performance of the hardware.
How to read it in InferenceX
The Rubin article’s 75 TPS example assumes 60% utilization and no model-license fee for MIT-licensed DeepSeek V4 Pro. Its linear conversion from a GW to a smaller deployment holds the same assumptions; it is not a measured fleet-scale profit result.