This article discusses the benefits of owning a data center instead of relying on cloud services. It covers practical aspects like power, cooling, server setup, and software management, based on comma.ai's own experience. The author emphasizes self-reliance, cost savings, and engineering challenges.

This article breaks down how major cloud data warehouses charge for compute costs, emphasizing that price lists can be misleading. It explains the different billing models used by Snowflake, Databricks, ClickHouse Cloud, Google BigQuery, and Amazon Redshift Serverless, helping users compare true costs based on their query patterns.