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by boulos 2927 days ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and helped launch Preemptible VMs).

> (assuming that Google allows enough GPU quota for a fleet of GPUs for nonenterprise users anyways

This is actually why we have separate preemptible quota [1], which we grant more freely. You can't stock out our full-price customers, so we're happy to let you spin up tons of V100s (and as of this morning TPUs!).

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/quotas#quotas_for_preemptib...

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I was wondering why there was a separate quota. That makes much more sense!