Higher national K–12 student participation in the HSe4Metrics platform directly drives higher cloud costs
The higher, the better. A monthly cost approaching $1 billion would signal widespread platform adoption, with rising cloud costs reflecting broad national K–12 participation.
Cloud costing parameters: Daily Active Users (DAUs) for the HSe4Metrics platform may include a target population of (A) million K-12 students, (B) million pre-K-12 young people, and an assumed (C)% of parents of K-12 students who will regularly visit the platform, along with (D)% of parents of pre-K-12 young people. Additionally, an average of (E) million teachers and members of the general public will visit the platform at a frequency that must be accounted for. This results in a total of (F) DAUs daily.
To support this user base, estimated cloud computing costs—including computing time, storage, networking, bandwidth, content delivery, caching, databases, and AI processing—could reach nearly $1 billion per month. This cost reflects both the scale of activity and the essential participation of K–12 students.