Even Preemptible 8xH100 Instances Are Sold Out Everywhere
bingxu_ · x · 2026-09-16
Developer bingxu flags an acute GPU shortage: even preemptible 8xH100 instances are unavailable across cloud providers. Spot/preemptible capacity is usually the safety valve for elastic compute, so its total sellout signals severe H100-class scarcity spilling over from training and inference demand.
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