Fickle GPU availability makes on-prem AI compute worth a second look
generativist · x · 2026-09-09
The author observes that data storage and transfer costs still anchor workloads to specific cloud providers, but as GPU availability stays fickle, there are suddenly some cases where on-prem compute offers decent returns.
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