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      "id": "the-missing-meter",
      "title": "The Missing Meter: What every infrastructure buildout leaves behind, and the unit AI still lacks",
      "author": {
        "name": "Sidney Scott",
        "affiliation": "The Ashby Institute",
        "email": "sidney@theashbyinstitute.org"
      },
      "version": "v1.0",
      "datePublished": "2026-07-15",
      "dateModified": "2026-10-01",
      "url": "https://themissingmeter.org/publications/the-missing-meter/",
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      "pdf": "https://themissingmeter.org/downloads/The_Missing_Meter.pdf",
      "abstract": "AI is the first trillion-dollar infrastructure buildout that cannot yet state, in a standard unit, what its output costs. This paper proposes the served token as a unit of account for AI inference, conditioned on a stated service-level objective and quality floor.",
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          "url": "https://themissingmeter.org/downloads/exhibit1_scissors.csv"
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        {
          "label": "Exhibit 2 data",
          "format": "CSV",
          "url": "https://themissingmeter.org/downloads/exhibit2_served_token.csv"
        },
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          "url": "https://themissingmeter.org/downloads/worked_example.pdf"
        }
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