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Re:Microsoft Flight Simulator's cloud debut comes with upsid... by zitterbewegung on Monday March 07, 2022 @09:43AM (#30588372)
Not 100% about this guess that I have but if its "free" it probably means that they calculated that they have x% extra server availability and they provide that for "free". Google Colab makes it obvious when they provide you a GPU but I don't know about Microsoft.
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Re:Microsoft Flight Simulator's cloud debut comes with upsid... by YPPH on Monday March 07, 2022 @10:04AM (#30588591)
Exactly what I was thinking, they can just use spare Azure capacity.
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Re:Microsoft Flight Simulator's cloud debut comes with upsid... by charcircuit on Monday March 07, 2022 @10:11AM (#30588691)
The only problem is you need powerful machines with GPUs which will only be a small subset of spare capacity.
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