**To Cut AI Costs, Start with Cloud Spend**

> AI’s so-called “messy middle” may have hit its biggest mess yet. As a global hardware crunch clashes with massive demand, AI costs have skyrocketed. In a scramble for more compute, AI services companies have had no choic... Thought Leaders To Cut AI Costs, Start with Cloud Spend Published June 18, 2026 By Kevin Cochrane, CMO, Vultr AI’s so-called “messy middle” may have hit its biggest mess yet.&nbs...

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- **来源**：Hacker News：AI 热帖
- **分类**：行业
- **发布时间**：2026-06-26 02:41（北京时间）
- **原文**：[打开原文](https://www.unite.ai/ai-compute-crisis-cloud-cost-optimization)