Author: alicegray

A mid-size manufacturer has run Power BI on a P1 capacity for four years. At renewal, its reseller recommends the obvious replacement: an F64 Fabric capacity, which matches P1 in compute. The finance team approves it, since the price looks similar. Nobody checks how the capacity is actually used. A later review shows that most of the workload consists of a few dozen reports refreshed overnight, with peak interactive use for two hours each morning. Only about 150 people view content regularly, and most of them already have Pro licenses through their Microsoft 365 plan. The company is paying for…