Cloud GPU Tenants Can Now Be Weaponized Against the Power Grid
New research shows cloud GPU tenants could destabilize the power grid just by timing their power draw, plus NVIDIA's bet that networking is AI's next bottleneck and the real story behind Scrapli's confusing release saga.
Welcome to Amaze Networks for Tuesday, July twenty-first. Quick question before we get into it: if a cloud customer never breaks a single rule, never trips a single alarm, and never does anything a security team would flag, can they still take down the power grid? We've got a paper today that says yes.
That's a genuinely unsettling way to start a Tuesday. Let's get into it.
So this comes out of Zhejiang University, and the setup is almost boring on purpose. A cloud tenant rents GPUs, runs a workload that looks completely normal from the outside. Nothing malicious about the code itself.
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