I happened to check out a couple steams and videos on youtube including the most recent ones on Amplitude's channel and noticed that everything from system improvements to research had reduced costs in these videos, for instance the Drone Networks having an 80 industry cost instead of the 160 industry it's costing ingame for myself. As far as I can tell no one's running any sort of mods or something and I can't seem to find any reason for the discrepancy. I am running the most recent patch with the vaulters and supremacy DLCs if that makes any difference.

Funny how you don't notice these things if you never change the game speed. Thank you for pointing that out to me.