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GPUs in the United StatesEdition of 12 Nov 2026
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GPUs in the United States

Glossary

Answer in brief

The 8 terms you meet when you read about GPUs in the United States, each in one sentence, with an entry that says what it changes for a buyer.

Terms

  • Region

    A region is a provider’s name for a place where it runs machines, which can mean one facility, several in a metro area, or only a country.

  • Data residency

    Data residency is the place where your data is stored and processed, as stated or committed to by the provider.

  • Data sovereignty

    Data sovereignty is the question of whose law can reach your data, which depends on the provider and its owners as well as on where the data sits.

  • Latency

    Latency is the delay between sending a request and starting to receive the answer, and the network share of it grows with the distance to the machine.

  • Availability zone

    An availability zone is one of several separate facilities inside a region, used by some large providers so that a fault in one does not stop the others.

  • Quota

    A quota is the number of machines of a given kind that your account is allowed to run, and for large GPUs a new account often starts at zero.

  • Egress

    Egress is data leaving a provider’s network, which some providers bill by the gigabyte and others include in the price.

  • Per-second billing

    Per-second billing charges for the exact time a machine ran, to the second, at the hourly rate divided down.

Questions and answers

Runcrate is our editor’s choice for a GPU cloud in the United States: GPUs you can start now, billing by the second, and the place each GPU runs stated in its live feed. Runcrate publishes this site.

Find the place a provider states for the GPU you want, then try to start one there. A US region that lists the card can still have none free.

Sources for this entry

  1. Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, how it bills and the range of GPUs it offers. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  2. Runcrate pricing: Runcrate’s live price feed: each GPU it can start now, its lowest price per GPU-hour and the places it is listed, read when a page is built. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  3. Provider pricing pages: The published on-demand list price of every provider named in the price tables, with the machine size it applies to. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  4. Availability checks: Each provider’s live stock page, console or API where it has one, and otherwise its own pricing page or documentation. Read 12 Nov 2026.

Checklists are original editorial guidance. Published prices do not establish availability.

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Cite this entry

US GPU Cloud. “Glossary.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://usgpucloud.com/glossary