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I'm really shocked at how dependent companies have become on the cloud offerings. Want a GPU? Those are expensive, lets just rent on Amazon and then complain about operational costs!

I've noticed this at companies. Yeah, the cloud is expensive, but you have a data center, and a few servers with RTX 3090s aren't expensive. A lot of research workloads can run on simple, cheap hardware.

Even older Nvidia P40s are still useful.