The AI Compute Race Glossary Utilization

Utilization

What does “Utilization” mean?

Utilization

The share of a machine’s hours that are used. With the value of each hour, it decides a campus’s return. Chapter 14.

From The AI Compute Race. Read the book

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

Related terms

From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.

How to cite this page

Dryburgh, Lee S. “Utilization.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/utilization (accessed 2026-11-01).

BibTeX

@misc{dryburgh-utilization-2026,
  author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
  title = {{Utilization}},
  howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/utilization},
  note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}

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