Please, read literally any article about the ongoing problem. The IPs are basically random, come from residential blocks, requests don’t reuse the same IP more than a bunch of times.
Are you sure that's AI? I get requests that are overtly from AI crawlers, and almost no other requests. Certainly all of the high-volume crawler-like requests overtly say that they're from crawlers.
And those residential proxy services cost their customer around $0.50/GB up to $20/GB. Do with that knowledge what you will.
And those residential proxy services cost their customer around $0.50/GB up to $20/GB. Do with that knowledge what you will.