Security · 1h ago
AI agents now drive nearly half of web traffic, straining infrastructure
AI agents now account for nearly half of all web requests in some deployments, according to vshosting. A single agent can trigger hundreds of requests per second, increasing server costs and degrading performance for human users. Without filtering, organizations waste compute resources on traffic that provides little business value.
Meridian48 take
The article highlights a real but often overlooked cost of AI adoption, though vshosting's framing as a security problem may overstate the threat—it's more an infrastructure and cost challenge.
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