[dontreact]

I agree with you but it also makes me think: Google's TPUs are also fixed costs and these research experiments could have been run at times when production serving need isn't as high.

[ec109685]

They sell them on the spot market, so there’s someone that would consume the baseline compute.

[dontreact]

I imagine it would never be optimal to set a price so low that utilization is always 100% externally