AI Usage Scales Differently Than Compute
Why usage patterns surprise teams. Teams often assume AI scales like infrastructure. More users. More requests. More cost. That intuition breaks down quickly. Compute Scales With Load Traditional compute scales with demand. Requests per second. Concurrent users. CPU utilization. You can model that. You can predict it. You can cap it. AI does not behave that way. Infrastructure costs are relatively predictable. You know how much a server costs per hour. You can estimate how many requests a service handles per second. You can project cost based on expected traffic growth. ...