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Rising AI token costs boost role of desktop PCs

As companies respond to rising cloud costs and concerns over data sovereignty by adjusting where AI computing is done, business PCs are drawing attention as endpoints for local inference. Dell Technologies said the spread of agentic AI is changing the role and criteria for AI PCs. Dell cited token costs as a key driver, saying agentic workflows can quickly raise cloud API costs. Executive Rob Bruckner said inference often does not require top-tier performance and AI PCs can help firms control token budgets.