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Your Next Cloud Region Choice Might Be Limited by a Power Grid You've Never Heard Of
Published on May 12, 2026By DEV Community
If you've ever spun up a GPU cluster, deployed a large model, or priced out inference infrastructure, you've already bumped into one uncomfortable truth: *AI workloads are power-hungry in a way that traditional web apps simply aren't. * A single H100 GPU draws around 700W. A rack of them? You're looking at tens of kilowatts. Scale that to a hyperscale training cluster, and you're competing with small cities for electricity. That's not a hypothetical. It's already reshaping where data centers get
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