Alibaba Cloud has announced price hikes of up to 34% on AI computing and storage
products due to surging global AI demand and rising supply-chain costs. Product
like Pingtouge Zhenwu 810E rose 5%-34%, while CPFS (Intelligent Computing
edition) storage increased 30%. Sources cite a sharp rise in Token usage as
another driver. Alibaba Cloud’s MaaS business, Bailian, recorded record growth
in Q1 2026, with scarce AI computing resources now prioritized for Token
workloads.
