I'm curious about the general utilization rates for hyperscaler data centers. How much headroom do they generally have to handle peaks in usage before they start offloading requests to other data centers? Is it around 50%, 75%, or even 90%? Also, what are the economic factors involved in this?
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There isn't a one-size-fits-all answer to this. Typically, we establish burst limits to help predict what scaling operations will look like, and we usually build a 20% cushion into our data centers to accommodate fluctuations. Just remember, hyperscalers don't have infinite capacity, and they won't support uncontrollable scaling operations.
Thanks, that makes sense!