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by mariopt 2066 days ago
Brand new hard drives drop a lot in value once used. Buying 256 gigs of RAM (specially ECC memory) and 2080 TI is not exactly cheap either.
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Oh, I forgot a super important bit. Using a 2080 TI/consumer grade GPU for cloud purposes is against Nvidia terms.

To avoid being sued you need a Tesla GPU, the cheapest one is $7,374

Datacenter license only counts if you're leasing out the hardware directly. It's fine to use consumer grade but you can't subdivide it or sell it to customers (for ML as an example)
Bit of a grey area: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/nvidia-updates-ge...

Quoting: “To clarify this, we recently added a provision to our GeForce-specific EULA to discourage potential misuse of our GeForce and Titan products in demanding, large-scale enterprise environments.”

According to this article, they want to discourage but I would expect legal retaliation if FileCoin proves to be profitable. There is one area where AWS never launched: gaming servers and I suspect this could be the reason.