# Run AI workloads on any cloud, store on Hugging Face: zero-egress storage with SkyPilot

DevFeed: [Run AI workloads on any cloud, store on Hugging Face: zero-egress storage with SkyPilot](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/run-ai-workloads-on-any-cloud-store-on-hugging-face-zero-egress-storage-with-skypilot-7475.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/skypilot-hf-storage>)

Author: Nikhil Jha; Zhanghao Wu; Hope Wang; Adrien Carreira; Julien Chaumond

Published: 2026-07-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [hugging face](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hugging-face.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [GPU](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gpu.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>), [model-deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-deployment.md>), [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/containers.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [containers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/containers.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [gpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.md>), [hugging-face](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hugging-face.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [open-source-collab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source-collab.md>), [partnerships](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/partnerships.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [skypilot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/skypilot.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

Hugging Face Storage integrates with SkyPilot so models, datasets, and Spaces can be mounted into jobs running on GPUs across clouds, Kubernetes, Slurm, and on-premises infrastructure. The integration offers zero-egress reads, Xet-backed deduplication, filesystem-level fetching, and local caching across the AI workload lifecycle.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.