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###****The $400 Billion Problem Nobody in AI Infrastructure Wants to Talk A=
bout****

*Everyone's racing to buy more GPUs. Almost no one is checking whether the =
ones they already own are doing anything.=C2=A0*They mostly aren't.**

**The number**
--------------

Gartner expects AI infrastructure to add ~$401B in new spend in 2026. Meanw=
hile, average GPU utilization runs around 23%, and some real-world fleets m=
easure closer to 5%. So a huge share of that spend is buying capacity that =
sits idle.

And this used to be survivable because compute kept getting cheaper. Not an=
ymore. AWS raised H200 pricing ~15% in January 2026, the first sustained ri=
se since 2006. An idle CPU costs cents an hour. An idle H100 costs dollars,=
 and those dollars are climbing.

Some of it is hoarding left over from the shortage. But the bigger, quieter=
 reason: **the storage and data pipeline can't feed the GPUs fast enough.**=
 The chip only earns its keep during the compute step. Loading, preprocessi=
ng, and checkpointing are all moments it sits waiting. In unoptimized setup=
s, GPUs idle 30 to 50% of the time waiting on data, and a slow checkpoint w=
rite stalls the whole cluster.

The most expensive asset in the rack, waiting on one of the cheapest.

**Is this you? Three 5-minute checks**
--------------------------------------

- **Checkpoint writes take minutes, not seconds.** That's storage saturatio=
n, not a GPU limit.=20
- **Data-loader wait time rivals compute time.** Your pipeline is the bottl=
eneck, not the accelerator.=20
- **The local-NVMe test.** Stage your dataset on local NVMe and rerun the s=
ame job. If it speeds up noticeably, the problem was your storage or networ=
k the whole time.

**The fix, in order**
---------------------

- **Measure real utilization first.** Not the top-line number, which hides =
stalls. Per-workload GPU wait time.=20
- **Feed the GPUs.** Local NVMe caching, prefetch, parallel file systems, c=
heckpoint acceleration.=20
- **Share the GPUs.** Time-slicing and model consolidation for bursty infer=
ence. Scale-to-zero when idle.=20
- **Then, and only then, decide if you actually need more hardware.**

Teams that do this cut cost 20% from time-slicing alone, and up to 70% once=
 consolidation and right-sizing are layered on.

**What this means for you**
---------------------------

- **If you own the budget (FinOps / procurement):** utilization is your che=
apest capacity. Audit it before you sign the next reservation. The idle 77%=
 is a line item, not a rounding error.

- **If you run the infra (DevOps / platform):** treat storage as a first-cl=
ass part of the GPU stack. Your fastest win is probably in the data path, n=
ot more nodes.

- **If you set direction (CTO / architect):** "how many more GPUs" is the w=
rong first question. "What percentage of ours is actually computing" comes =
first, and it's usually a surprise.

**Do one thing this week**
--------------------------

Pull real GPU wait-time numbers for one training job and run the local-NVMe=
 test. Most teams have never measured it, and the ones that do usually find=
 they never had a GPU shortage at all.

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ding: 0; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style=3D"box-s=
izing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;">The $400 Billion Problem Nobody =
in AI Infrastructure Wants to Talk About</strong></span></strong></span></h=
3></div> </td> </tr><tr style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding=
: 0;"><td class=3D"r14-c nl2go-default-textstyle" align=3D"left" style=3D"b=
ox-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #414141; font-family: =
Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; word-break: break-word; backgroun=
d-color: #dce8fb; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 14px; padding-right: =
14px; padding-top: 12px; text-align: left; valign: top;"> <div style=3D"box=
-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><p style=3D"box-sizing: border=
-box; padding: 0; margin: 0;"><em id=3D"isPasted" style=3D"box-sizing: bord=
er-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;">Everyone's racing to buy more GPUs. Almost =
no one is checking whether the ones they already own are doing anything.=C2=
=A0<em id=3D"isPasted" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding:=
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zing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><td class=3D"r15-c nl2go-default-=
textstyle" align=3D"left" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; paddi=
ng: 0; color: #414141; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.=
5; word-break: break-word; padding-top: 15px; text-align: left; valign: top=
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=3D"default-heading2" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0; margin: =
0; color: #414141; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 400; =
word-break: break-word;"><span style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; =
padding: 0; font-size: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><s=
trong style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;">The number</=
strong></span></h2></div> </td> </tr><tr style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; m=
argin: 0; padding: 0;"><td class=3D"r16-c nl2go-default-textstyle" align=3D=
"left" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #4141=
41; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; word-break: brea=
k-word; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-top: 15px; text-align: left; valign: =
top;"> <div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><p sty=
le=3D"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0; margin: 0;">Gartner expects AI in=
frastructure to add ~$401B in new spend in 2026. Meanwhile, average GPU uti=
lization runs around 23%, and some real-world fleets measure closer to 5%. =
So a huge share of that spend is buying capacity that sits idle.</p><p styl=
e=3D"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0; margin: 0;">And this used to be su=
rvivable because compute kept getting cheaper. Not anymore. AWS raised H200=
 pricing ~15% in January 2026, the first sustained rise since 2006. An idle=
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: 0; padding: 0;"><td class=3D"r17-c nl2go-default-textstyle" align=3D"left=
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ont-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; word-break: break-wor=
d; text-align: left; valign: top;"> <div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; m=
argin: 0; padding: 0;"><p style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0; marg=
in: 0;">Some of it is hoarding left over from the shortage. But the bigger,=
 quieter reason: <strong style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; paddin=
g: 0;">the storage and data pipeline can't feed the GPUs fast enough.</stro=
ng> The chip only earns its keep during the compute step. Loading, preproce=
ssing, and checkpointing are all moments it sits waiting. In unoptimized se=
tups, GPUs idle 30 to 50% of the time waiting on data, and a slow checkpoin=
t write stalls the whole cluster.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; pa=
dding: 0; margin: 0;">The most expensive asset in the rack, waiting on one =
of the cheapest.</p></div> </td> </tr><tr style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; =
margin: 0; padding: 0;"><td class=3D"r15-c nl2go-default-textstyle" align=
=3D"left" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #4=
14141; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; word-break: b=
reak-word; padding-top: 15px; text-align: left; valign: top;"> <div style=
=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><h2 class=3D"default-he=
ading2" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0; margin: 0; color: #414=
141; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 400; word-break: br=
eak-word;"><span style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0; fo=
nt-size: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style=3D=
"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;">Is this you? Three 5-minut=
e checks</strong></span></h2></div> </td> </tr><tr style=3D"box-sizing: bor=
der-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><td class=3D"r17-c nl2go-default-textstyle=
" align=3D"left" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0; co=
lor: #414141; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; word-b=
reak: break-word; text-align: left; valign: top;"> <div style=3D"box-sizing=
: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><ul style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; =
padding: 0; margin: 0;"><li data-sourcepos=3D"24:1-24:95;1419-1513" id=3D"i=
sPasted" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0; margin: 0;"><strong s=
tyle=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;">Checkpoint writes t=
ake minutes, not seconds.</strong> That's storage saturation, not a GPU lim=
it.</li><li data-sourcepos=3D"25:1-25:103;1514-1616" style=3D"box-sizing: b=
order-box; padding: 0; margin: 0;"><strong style=3D"box-sizing: border-box;=
 margin: 0; padding: 0;">Data-loader wait time rivals compute time.</strong=
> Your pipeline is the bottleneck, not the accelerator.</li><li data-source=
pos=3D"26:1-26:168;1617-1784" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0; =
margin: 0;"><strong style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;=
">The local-NVMe test.</strong> Stage your dataset on local NVMe and rerun =
the same job. If it speeds up noticeably, the problem was your storage or n=
etwork the whole time.</li></ul></div> </td> </tr><tr style=3D"box-sizing: =
border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><td class=3D"r15-c nl2go-default-textst=
yle" align=3D"left" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;=
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d-break: break-word; padding-top: 15px; text-align: left; valign: top;"> <d=
iv style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><h2 class=3D"de=
fault-heading2" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0; margin: 0; col=
or: #414141; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 400; word-b=
reak: break-word;"><span style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; paddin=
g: 0; font-size: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong =
style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;">The fix, in order<=
/strong></span></h2></div> </td> </tr><tr style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; =
margin: 0; padding: 0;"><td class=3D"r17-c nl2go-default-textstyle" align=
=3D"left" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #4=
14141; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; word-break: b=
reak-word; text-align: left; valign: top;"> <div style=3D"box-sizing: borde=
r-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><ul style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; padding=
: 0; margin: 0;"><li data-sourcepos=3D"30:1-30:112;1808-1919" id=3D"isPaste=
d" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0; margin: 0;"><strong style=
=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;">Measure real utilizatio=
n first.</strong> Not the top-line number, which hides stalls. Per-workload=
 GPU wait time.</li><li data-sourcepos=3D"31:1-31:100;1920-2019" style=3D"b=
ox-sizing: border-box; padding: 0; margin: 0;"><strong style=3D"box-sizing:=
 border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;">Feed the GPUs.</strong> Local NVMe cac=
hing, prefetch, parallel file systems, checkpoint acceleration.</li><li dat=
a-sourcepos=3D"32:1-32:107;2020-2126" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; padd=
ing: 0; margin: 0;"><strong style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; pad=
ding: 0;">Share the GPUs.</strong> Time-slicing and model consolidation for=
 bursty inference. Scale-to-zero when idle.</li><li data-sourcepos=3D"33:1-=
33:71;2127-2197" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0; margin: 0;"><=
strong style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;">Then, and o=
nly then, decide if you actually need more hardware.</strong><br style=3D"b=
ox-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><br style=3D"box-sizing: bor=
der-box; margin: 0; padding: 0;">Teams that do this cut cost 20% from time-=
slicing alone, and up to 70% once consolidation and right-sizing are layere=
d on.</li></ul></div> </td> </tr><tr style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margi=
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ttom: 8px;"><a href=3D"https://h24t8.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq=
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curity and compliance posture, agentic tooling, pricing, and a straight ver=
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ibm3.com/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dIb4hZvL2Y0NosX05Fp/fxurBfVGWy96" style=3D"box-=
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use. RIs lock you to a configuration; Savings Plans lock you to a spend rat=
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hybrid approach that delivers the best effective savings.</p> <a class=3D"m=
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