Public cloud expenses have businesses scrambling for alternatives that won't melt the budget
Organizations are being forced to rethink where they host workloads in response to ballooning AI demands combined with rising energy bills, and shoving them into the public cloud may not be the answer.
The public cloud vendors position themselves as the destination of choice for training AI workloads, and they certainly have the infrastructure resources, with capital expenditure on AI-capable servers up by about But what is the alternative to cloud? Businesses have been migrating workloads to the cloud for a decade or so now because of the hassle of managing complex infrastructure, among other reasons, and many have downsized their own bit barns in response.
"We're seeing new business models emerging, companies which have invested in GPU capacity and are now developing GPU-as-a-service models to help customers access this. Whether that's a sustainable model or not is debatable, but essentially, every customer needs help to actually define what that looks like," Edwards explained.
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