I’d bet that the new AI system wasn’t set to rate limit and ate up all their bandwidth. If you’ve had to work with some of these types of systems from the networking side, you see how much data they try to suck in. I’ve heard of Palantir using an entire months bandwidth cap at a remote site in a day.

ProxmoxVE helper scripts have been around for quite a while and are pretty easy to read, as well as being pretty well supported in the community. You can just go to the GitHub page and read them. I’ve used some of their scripts before by downloading them, customizing the scripts to my needs, and hosting it on a local web server inside my network. Now I can run one command and I’ll have a new debian container on my host with ssh keys and everything.