[skuhn]

Nvidia's datacenter product licensing costs are beyond onerous, but even worse to me is that their license server (both its on-premise and cloud version) is fiddly and sometimes just plain broken. Losing your license lease makes the card go into super low performance hibernation mode, which means that dealing with the licensing server is not just about maintaining compliance -- it's about keeping your service up.

It's a bit of a mystery to me how anyone can run a high availability service that relies on Nvidia datacenter GPUs. Even if you somehow get it all sorted out, if there was ANY other option I would take it.