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Cloud CPU capacity

Availability, reservation and pricing of general-purpose CPU compute sold by public cloud providers.

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Infrastructure leaders say AI demand has erased cheap CPU spot capacity

CTOs told Gergely Orosz that CPU spot pricing, once up to 90% below list, has nearly vanished as AI workloads absorb spare cloud capacity. Teams whose compute budgets assumed spot rates now have to plan for getting capacity at all, on top of paying more for it.

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