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PunchyHamsteryesterday at 8:46 PM3 repliesview on HN

The customers time is not flexible like that.

And every second GPU is not working, it's not making money


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Dylan16807yesterday at 9:18 PM

> The customers time is not flexible like that.

A lot of the super expensive queries are flexible. Especially the agentic coding ones. And higher use naturally follows the sun anyway.

> And every second GPU is not working, it's not making money

Some companies already have more chips than they can feed, so if that continues then sure why not let it idle part of the night.

kube-systemyesterday at 10:10 PM

You both are talking about this stuff as if it is a new concept. Demand-based pricing is already commonplace for both electricity and compute.

The demand for both compute and electricity is higher while people are awake and using them. But not all demand is realtime, and some will shift in response to prices.

doctorpanglossyesterday at 9:13 PM

> The customers time is not flexible like that.

haha how do you figure? with how much time people spend playing league of legends, watching tiktok and standing in line for "Free" shit, i think their time is actually quite flexible