{"id":148111,"date":"2026-03-18T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148111"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:30:08","slug":"alibaba-and-baidu-lift-cloud-prices-by-up-to-34-amid-ai-demand-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148111","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba and Baidu lift cloud prices by up to 34% amid AI demand surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostThe cloud-computing units of Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu are raising prices for certain services by as much as 34 per cent, following similar moves by their American peers earlier this year as artificial intelligence demand and infrastructure costs rise.<br \/>\nStarting April 18, Alibaba Cloud\u2019s services running on its AI chips \u2013 such as the T-Head Zhengwu 810E unveiled in late January \u2013 would cost between 5 and 34 per cent more, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe price of its Cloud&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3347030\/alibaba-and-baidu-lift-cloud-prices-34-amid-ai-demand-surge?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostThe cloud-computing units of Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu are raising prices for certain services by as much as 34 per cent, following similar&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}