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The 1/W Law: Routing Topology Beats Hardware Upgrades for Inference Efficiency

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This paper derives the "1/W law": tokens per watt halves every time effective context window doubles. Translation: which GPU services which context is a more powerful energy lever than buying newer GPUs. For large-context agentic deployments, your routing architecture matters more than your hardware generation. Directly actionable for infrastructure planning.

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