Datadog's State of Cloud Costs 2024 Report Finds Spending on GPU Instances Growing 40% as Organizations Experiment with AI
NEW YORK, June 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today announced its new report, the State of Cloud Costs 2024. The report found organizations that use graphics processing unit (GPU) instances have increased their average spending on those instances by 40% in the last year. This growth in spend on GPU instances comes as more companies are experimenting with AI and large language models (LLMs). GPUs' capacity for parallel processing makes them critical for training LLMs and executing other AI workloads, where they can be more than 200% faster than CPUs.
- NEW YORK, June 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Datadog , Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today announced its new report, the State of Cloud Costs 2024 .
- The report found organizations that use graphics processing unit (GPU) instances have increased their average spending on those instances by 40% in the last year.
- This growth in spend on GPU instances comes as more companies are experimenting with AI and large language models (LLMs).
- In addition to more companies spending compute on AI projects, the report found that containers were a common theme of wasted spend among organizations.