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When I was in highschool, my friends and I were doing a small project. My friend accidentally ran Google's image recognition service in a while loop for a whole minute, and racked up a $300 bill. Thankfully GCP waived it for us.


I ran up a $4,000 bill with like a week of TPU time bc I didn’t realize that they kept running after the attached CPU turned off (unlike GPU offerings).

GCP also waived the whole thing - even refunding the $4k they had already pulled from my payment method.


That's brutal, and if you're anything like me, probably learned a lesson very thoroughly for the future!




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