Huge accelerator capacity headlines do not compute

Last year, the public cloud delivered a colossal 3.9 trillion virtual CPU-hours of computing power, equivalent to a single processor hyperthread operating around the clock for 445 million years. Cloud providers used a minimum of 7.5 million processors to deliver this capability, with a market value of $39 billion, according to TechInsights’ Cloud and Datacenter coverage area.
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