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Re:$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst by justahuman74 on Friday October 11, 2024 @12:55AM (#41806300)
Yes, please only rent instead

- sincerely, all of the cloud providers

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Re:$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst by pico_creator on Friday October 11, 2024 @02:05AM (#41806660)
~Cough~ not all cloud provider (there are many still willing to charge you an arm and a leg)

Only the ones who can give you below MSRP essentially

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Re:$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday October 11, 2024 @03:15PM (#41812575)
An H100 is what, $50,000 MSRP?

At $2/hr, that's 2.8 years to RoI. And that's just for the GPU and not the other hardware you'll need to plug it into, and doesn't include the power, and also assumes you're using it 100% of the time. Really, you're probably looking at 3.5+ years to RoI.

I'd rather rent than buy in that scenario.

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