ata centers when appropriate is "lowering costs and providing us access to hardware that we wouldn't necessarily have access to in the cloud," he adds. "As long as the utilization is high, the costs are much lower there." Launching experiments also takes far less time: "One of our researchers who is working on a new distributed training system has been able to get his experiment running in two or three days. In a week or two he scaled it out to hundreds of GPUs. Previously, that would have easily been a cou