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Why Your GPU Is Sitting Idle: The Data Pipeline Problem No One Talks About

Adobe’s experience reveals why GPUs sit idle during AI model training: slow storage, insufficient throughput, and uneven workloads. Learn how storage bottlenecks and uneven data loading leave expensive GPUs idle—and how always-hot, high-throughput object storage keeps AI training pipelines running efficiently at scale while reducing wasted compute costs.