[rileyphone]

Nvidia’s business model makes it inherently more expensive to run on the cloud.

[fshbbdssbbgdd]

Ah, do you have to contract when you buy the cheap GPUs that you might use then for game streaming but you won’t do AI inference?

Makes me wonder if you could first-sale-doctrine your way out of that problem by buying the GPUs on eBay and not making any agreement with Nvidia.

[sneak]

The software is proprietary and is governed by the license. It's not the hardware.

[EMIRELADERO]

Can't wait for a court to toss that particular one out. "Consumers who purchase a product containing a copy of embedded software have the inherent legal right to use that copy of the software" (Chamberlain v. Skylink)

[sneak]

The drivers are not embedded in the hardware. They are gigabytes of additional downloads.

[EMIRELADERO]

They are required to use the hardware however. They also come with Windows by default.

[mejutoco]

AFAIK Nvidia restricts which GPUs you can run in a datacenter, so you cannot buy, for instance, RTX 4090 and use it in a datacenter. You need to buy the datacenter, and much more expensive, cards.