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AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind

By Tim Rausch 5 min read 5 views 0 comments
AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind
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Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage costs. What happens to data after a model responds? Much of the back-end data that’s generated—from billions of daily prompts, images, and videos—needs…

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