Your AI Cluster Is Idle 95% of the Time

Your GPU utilization dashboard reads 40%. The cluster is healthy. The GPUs are loaded. Except they're not working. That 40% is a peak average across a monitoring window. It doesn't show the forty minutes after the spike when the inference queue drained and the cluster sat fully provisioned against a trickle of requests two nodes could have handled. The cluster isn't underutilized. It's mispriced against actual demand. That's a different problem with a different root cause — and the mistake that