Does an AI GCC need dedicated GPUs?
Not automatically. Most first squads run on cloud on-demand or reserved capacity. Dedicated GPUs make sense when utilization is sustained and high, when data isolation or residency demands it, or when latency-sensitive inference cannot tolerate shared capacity.
Dedicated GPUs are not automatically cheaper than cloud GPUs. Utilization determines the economics. A dedicated cluster that idles half the time is more expensive than the cloud it replaced.