{"slug": "space-stuck-at-starting-on-l40s-huggingface-conveniently-taking-my-money-without", "title": "Space stuck at starting on L40S - HuggingFace conveniently taking my money without using any compute", "summary": "A Hugging Face user reported that their Space is stuck at starting on an L40S GPU, with the platform charging for compute without actually providing it. The issue has been echoed by multiple users in related forum threads.", "body_md": "Hugging Face Forums\nSpace stuck at starting on L40S - HuggingFace conveniently taking my money without using any compute\nSpaces\nJohnSmith777\nJune 24, 2026, 2:41pm\n1\n(topic deleted by author)\nRelated topics\nTopic\nReplies\nViews\nActivity\nSpace cannot start and keeps getting stuck at \"starting on l4\"\nSpaces\n6\n147\nJuly 14, 2025\nMes Spaces restent bloqués sur “Starting” malgré abonnement Pro et hébergement GPU\n🤗Transformers\n5\n127\nMarch 28, 2026\nHF Space stuck at Starting\nSpaces\n2\n990\nNovember 28, 2025\nSpace doesn't work\nBeginners\n2\n68\nOctober 17, 2025\nRuntime error Launch timed out, space was not healthy after 30 min Container logs:\nSpaces\n2\n421\nOctober 28, 2023", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/space-stuck-at-starting-on-l40s-huggingface-conveniently-taking-my-money-without", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/space-stuck-at-starting-on-l40s-huggingface-conveniently-taking-my-money-without-using-any-compute/177123#post_1", "published_at": "2026-06-24 14:41:39+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-24 14:46:26.924176+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Hugging Face", "L40S"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/space-stuck-at-starting-on-l40s-huggingface-conveniently-taking-my-money-without", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/space-stuck-at-starting-on-l40s-huggingface-conveniently-taking-my-money-without.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/space-stuck-at-starting-on-l40s-huggingface-conveniently-taking-my-money-without.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/space-stuck-at-starting-on-l40s-huggingface-conveniently-taking-my-money-without.jsonld"}}