One accelerator working for one hour, the unit the rental market quotes as a GPU-hour. A usable hour has power, cooling and a network behind it, so that it can be sold or put to work. Chapter 14.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
Defined in Chapter 14 — The Convergence.
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 14 — The Convergence
One campus, Meta’s Hyperion, run through four possible futures to show how science, power, money and permission meet in the price of an accelerator-hour.
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From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Accelerator-hour.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/accelerator-hour (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-accelerator-hour-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Accelerator-hour}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/accelerator-hour},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}