On March 18, 2026, propelled by the global surge in AI adoption and a notable uptick in Token requests, cloud service providers including Alibaba Cloud and Baidu Intelligent Cloud announced price hikes for select AI computing power and storage products. Specifically, prices for some of Alibaba Cloud's computing power card products increased by 5% to 34%, while the file storage product CPFS (Intelligent Computing Version) saw a 30% rise. Similarly, Baidu Intelligent Cloud raised the prices of its AI computing power-related product services by approximately 5% to 30%, with parallel file storage and other services experiencing a roughly 30% increase. Despite the current lack of clear visibility into the large-scale commercialization of AI applications, multiple research reports forecast that over the next 3 to 6 months, with the intensive rollout of AI applications on the inference side and the continuous iteration of models on the training side, demand for computing power is expected to climb even further.