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Many users will use the service at once though, not evenly distributed ... so you might wanna overprovision. Which is basically what you dont wanna do - profitability is reached by underprovisioning.



I think for an AI generation service this problem is actually more solvable than usual. You can slow down how fast the results are returned, which will slow down the demand. Charge more for a higher tier that gets prioritized. People are going to be a somewhat bothered if the result takes 10 seconds instead of 1 second, but it’s not the end of the world if it’s a rare event. If Netflix can’t keep up with demand and your video spends half the time buffering that would be a worse failure mode.


yes yes, i was contemplating game streaming.




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