Before creating this post, I tried to impose the CPU limits in Docker but it seems like they weren't taking into effect for whatever reason so I have a question out to the Hugging Face community about it.

I'll report back if I learn of anything that helps. Or if anyone sees this who has used a Docker Iris project with HF spaces feel free to chime in. I'll also note this isn't a super important blocking issue for what I'm working on, I just tried out to see if I can deploy to Hugging Face spaces kind of for fun.