[Vitalik: Bitcoin mining costs are roughly split between hardware capital expenditure and electricity costs, while AI inference costs are primarily driven by hardware investment] Odaily Planet Daily News - Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform, stating that Bitcoin mining costs are roughly evenly divided between capital expenditure on computing equipment and electricity costs, whereas AI inference costs are almost entirely dominated by capital expenditure on computing equipment. This difference reflects the distinct cost structures of Bitcoin mining and AI inference.