# tokens
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The New ‘Compute Tax’: How OpenClaw Turns AI FOMO into Consumer Spending
OpenClaw has turned the high cost of compute into an accessible but potentially expensive consumer product, fueling token spending driven more by fear of missing out than by clear productivity gains. While big tech treats compute as a long-term strategic play, ordinary users are discovering that using powerful AI can be costlier and less useful than expected, creating new revenue streams for cloud vendors and service providers.
OpenClaw and the Rise of the 'Anxiety Tax': How Consumer AI Is Turning Compute into Cash
OpenClaw's consumer rollout has turned expensive compute into a new "anxiety tax," driving token spending among ordinary users and creating secondary markets for installers and course sellers. While cloud vendors and chipmakers reap the benefits, many consumers pay for emotional reassurance rather than clear productivity gains.
Seedance 2.0 Turns AI Video into a One‑Yuan‑Per‑Second Product — Cheap, Fast and Fraught
ByteDance’s Volcano Engine has published pricing for Seedance 2.0 that equates to roughly 1 CNY per second for a 15‑second AI‑generated video under the higher tariff, with a cheaper rate when users supply source video for editing. The rates formalise per‑token billing for video, lowering barriers to production while raising questions about infrastructure strain, content moderation and copyright.
China’s AI New-Year Sprint Exposes a New Scarcity: Token Inflation and Rising Compute Prices
China’s major tech firms used the 2026 Lunar New Year to launch a wave of multimodal AI models, precipitating a rapid rise in token-based inference demand. The surge is pushing cloud prices up, giving model vendors pricing leverage while exposing supply, governance and geopolitical risks.