What Does a Local LLM Actually Cost per Month? I Read the Meters. The Local LLM Lab — Part 5 One controlled experiment. One number. One verdict. The question nobody answers in the local-LLM hype is the boring one: what does the electricity bill say? Not "how many tokens per second." Not "how many GB of VRAM." The bill. The one that arrives on the first of the month and is the only number that actually matters for the person paying for the machine. I've been running a lo...