Field notes on owned-infrastructure economics.
Economics, hardware, and the engineering behind owned-infrastructure cloud — written by the team building it.
Running Kimi 2.6 on a single Forge MoE node
Kimi 2.6 is a trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that most people assume needs a rack of accelerators. It fits on one Forge MoE node. Here is why, and what to expect.
Why object storage costs far more than it should
Cloud object storage is priced on rented capacity and metered egress, not on what it costs to keep a byte. Here is why the price you pay is so detached from reality.
Running a 671B-parameter model on a single node
Mixture-of-experts models look like they need a rack of GPUs. With the right memory architecture and the KTransformers pattern, one node will do.
The egress tax: the cloud's most profitable line item
Egress fees cost the provider almost nothing and lock you in by design. Here is how the tax works and why owned infrastructure does not charge it.
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