THE OBSERVATORY
The numbers behind local AI.
Sourced, dated, verifiable.
Cost, carbon, hardware value: our calculations, our data and our methods.
To decide on the evidence, and reuse what helps you.
CALCULATOR
ROI and total cost
Your AI subscriptions against an Appliance, hardware value included.
Run the numbers CALCULATORCarbon calculator
Accounted emissions of cloud AI and of an Appliance, over three years.
Estimate the footprint INDEXHardware Value Index
New AI hardware and memory prices, recorded every month.
See the index BLOGBlog
Our analyses, methods and lab notes. First article online.
Read the articlesThe Observatory is published by Appliance Labs, which designs Appliances built on this hardware. The data may be reused with attribution.