A regional authority decides to provide free, unrestricted access to its state-funded high-performance computing (HPC) servers to all local technology start-ups.
What is a direct consequence of this policy?
There will be no opportunity cost associated with operating and maintaining the server clusters.
The computing capacity will convert into a non-rival public good.
The start-ups' demand for computing time will become perfectly price inelastic.
Non-price rationing mechanisms will have to be introduced to distribute the server capacity.
