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If they allot 20% of the compute to this effort, but they don't use it, the compute doesn't vanish, does it?

Allocation doesn't equal spending...

>>Jimthe+(OP)
Compute isn't vanishing whether they spend all of it or none of it. That's the point of allocation.

Allocation isn't spending no but it says quite a bit. Either way, they will be spending a non trivial amount of money trying to solve this problem quickly.