The future in which the machine works, the hours are scarce, and scarcity, not abundance, keeps the accelerator-hour worth paying for. Chapter 14.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
The book uses this term in a sense of its own.
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.
Where the record uses it
- Scorecard indicator Post-2024 METR horizon doubling time
- Scorecard indicator Autonomous research outer loop
- Scorecard indicator CoWoS
- Scorecard indicator CoreWeave 2026 borrowing spread ladder
Also discussed in
- Page The Compute Economy
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Rationed utility.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/rationed-utility (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-rationed-utility-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Rationed utility}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/rationed-utility},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}