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Efosa Udinmwen

'5% utilization is a math fail': Millions of GPUs worth billions are mostly sitting idle, report finds

Nvidia GPUs.
  • Most AI GPUs run at shockingly low utilization across production systems
  • Companies are paying for twenty times more GPU capacity than needed
  • Overprovisioning is rising sharply instead of improving year after year

Companies across the tech industry are racing to buy massive amounts of AI infrastructure, but most of it does barely any useful work at all.

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