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title: "Acceptable use policy | PowerGPU"
description: "What may and may not run on PowerGPU: the banned list (attacks, illegal content, spam, mining), the research allowance, and how enforcement works."
url: https://powergpu.ai/legal/aup
last_modified: 2026-09-14T11:04:20+00:00
prices_as_of: 2026-09-14
site: PowerGPU (powergpu.ai)
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Legal · Acceptable use policy

# Acceptable use policy

Privacy-first hosting is not anything-goes hosting. This page draws the line precisely, so the 99% of customers training models and rendering frames never feel it.

- Effective **2026-09-03**
- Version **1.0**
- Reading time **2 min**

In plain language

- Banned outright: illegal content, attacks and abuse infrastructure, cryptocurrency mining, sanctions evasion.
- Explicitly fine: training and serving models, lawful scraping, security research on your own resources, reselling capacity to users who follow this policy.
- Do not interfere with metering, isolation or scheduling — for example anti-interruption tricks on interruptible instances.
- Active harm is suspended immediately; anything else gets a notice and 48 hours to respond.
- Report abuse hosted here with a ticket titled “Abuse” — first response within 24 hours.

This summary helps you read the document; the numbered sections below are the binding text.

## 1 · Never allowed

- **Illegal content** — CSAM (zero tolerance, reported to the relevant authorities), content you have no right to process, material illegal where we or the facility operate.
- **Attacks** — DoS/DDoS in any direction, unauthorised access attempts, credential stuffing, malware command-and-control, exploit hosting aimed at third parties.
- **Abuse infrastructure** — spam origination, phishing sites, carding, botnet nodes, proxies/VPN exits operated to launder abusive traffic.
- **Cryptocurrency mining** — including "just overnight". Mining monetises interruptible capacity into uselessness for everyone; it is excluded platform-wide regardless of coin or intent.
- **Sanctions evasion** — use by or for sanctioned parties and destinations.

## 2 · Explicitly fine

Because "AI policy" pages often blur it: training and serving models (including open-weights LLMs and image/video models), scraping you are lawfully entitled to do, security research *against your own resources*, penetration-testing targets you own or have written authorisation for, Tor/VPN clients for your own egress privacy, and blockchain *nodes* (validation is not mining). When in doubt, ask first via a [ticket](https://cloud.powergpu.ai/app/support) — a written yes beats guessing.

## 3 · Platform health rules

- No deliberate interference with metering, isolation or capacity scheduling (e.g. anti-interruption tricks on interruptible instances).
- Outbound network abuse controls apply (port-scan storms, mail floods); genuine research traffic that trips them is unblocked with one ticket.
- Resale of capacity is fine (agencies, render farms, notebooks-as-a-service) as long as your end users stay within this AUP — you answer for them.

## 4 · How enforcement works

1. **Active harm** (attacks in progress, CSAM) — immediate suspension of the offending resources, then notice.
2. **Everything else** — notice first with 48 h to respond; most cases are misunderstandings and end there.
3. Repeated or bad-faith violations end the account; remaining legitimate credits are refunded per the [terms](https://powergpu.ai/legal/terms), unless the law forbids it.
4. Reports of abuse hosted here: open a ticket titled **Abuse** (any account, free to create) with URLs/indicators — first response within 24 h.

Version 1.0, effective 2026-09-03. Material changes are announced in-console 14 days ahead; previous versions are available on request through a support ticket.

Questions about this document?

Legal questions go through the same authenticated channel as everything else — a support ticket in the console, answered by a human.

[Open a ticket](https://cloud.powergpu.ai/app/support)

Key facts

- Crypto only · no card · no KYC
- No IP retention, no trackers
- Per-second billing, credits never expire
- 99.9% SLA, remedied in credits

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