The billing for Automatic Clustering is charged via a separate warehouse named AUTOMATIC_CLUSTERING.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Not applicable
• D. Depends on account

Answer: (A)

Automatic Clustering runs its compute in a dedicated warehouse, separate from your regular query warehouses. When you enable this feature, Snowflake uses a special warehouse named AUTOMATIC_CLUSTERING to perform clustering tasks, and the compute credits for those tasks are billed to that warehouse rather than to your normal warehouses. That isolation of billing and work helps keep clustering activity separate from user queries and makes usage easy to track. So the statement is true: the billing for Automatic Clustering is charged via the separate AUTOMATIC_CLUSTERING warehouse.