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by 2OEH8eoCRo0 933 days ago
550k H100s? Who is buying these? They are hella expensive and China isn't allowed to have them.
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Other than the ~12% I just estimated, lots of large-but-not-famous places will be buying ~1k, and small places will be buying tens to hundreds, and quite a lot of AI bubble money will be invested in startups that claim they only need one.

Probably some scientific modelling that can be done on these, so I bet some universities and private labs will be buying them. NASA, SpaceX, RocketLab, Helion, etc.

There's also probably a lot of AAA game studios and art studios for movies etc. who are each buying dozens of these graphics processing units for… graphics :P

Government agencies.
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