AI Of The Coast - Jiri Fiala

AI Of The Coast - Jiri Fiala

The Virtualization Tax: Why Your Cloud Provider's Numbers Are Lying

You pay for 8 H100s. You get 7.6 H100s worth of compute. That’s not a rounding error. That’s architecture.

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Jiri "Skzites" Fiala
Feb 13, 2026
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Every conversation I’ve had with technical buyers over the past month circles back to the same uncomfortable math. Hypervisors add 3% to 7% performance overhead. For training runs costing $50,000, th…

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