cold start

Pulling every replica's copy from object storage turns a 500 GB model into 62.5 TB of reads. The answer finds the three bounds that actually limit a fleet load, shows a pipelined broadcast reaching the tightest one, and lists the startup work that hides behind the bytes.

A web-service autoscaler watching GPU utilization will scale this fleet too late and in the wrong direction. The answer turns the four-minute load time into a headroom number, then decides what absorbs the bursts no scaler can catch.