Designing AI-Centric Cloud Architectures in 2026: GPUs, Neoclouds, and the Network Bottleneck
AI cloud architecture for GPU workloads breaks every standard cloud assumption you’ve built your career on. Standard cloud doctrine says: “Span multiple Availability Zones (AZs) for reliability.” In AI training, that doctrine will bankrupt you. I recently audited a cluster of 128 H100s running at only 35% utilization. The hardware wasn’t broken. The team had…