As far as I know the parent company has these datacenters for $1.6 billion. Not Deepseek itself. So it’s way more complicated than that. The truth is, we don’t know. The $6M they claimed for the final training run is far from the total cost. And AFAIK it’s more a theoretical calculation in the first place, for a hypothetical $2.00 per hour GPU renting and their claim of gpu hours. But $1.6 billions isn’t correct either. And I’ve read in another article that isn’t even operating cost. But just the cost of the servers. And yeah, they also need energy, they probably pay their employees. But it’s other projects running in these datacenters as well, also for years to come.