As SC26 approaches, AI infrastructure budgets are under heavy scrutiny and hardware costs keep rising. In this VMblog pre-show Q&A, Bill Conrades, VP Engineering at AHEAD, argues that the industry is measuring the wrong thing. Instead of asking how many GPUs an organization can buy, he says the better question is how quickly the right capacity can be put into production. Conrades explains how AHEAD Foundry moves receiving, rack assembly, cabling, configuration, burn-in, and validation …