Issue Scenario: enterprises cap compute per model, per team or per customer

Summary

One of NTT DATA's future scenarios for sufficiency has companies setting explicit limits on how much computing they use. In this scenario, enterprises cap computing consumption for each model, each team or each customer. Such policies would replace simple cost optimisation as the main way of governing computing resources. The report says this would shift innovation away from scaling up and toward doing more with less. It lists two main uncertainties, namely whether new hardware can lower energy per computation fast enough to avoid hard caps, and whether competitive pressure will lead companies to break their own sufficiency policies. The scenario tests how far the sufficiency principle can be applied to AI itself.