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by justahuman74 616 days ago
Yes, please only rent instead

- sincerely, all of the cloud providers

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An H100 is what, $50,000 MSRP?

At $2/hr, that's 2.8 years to RoI. And that's just for the GPU and not the other hardware you'll need to plug it into, and doesn't include the power, and also assumes you're using it 100% of the time. Really, you're probably looking at 3.5+ years to RoI.

I'd rather rent than buy in that scenario.

~Cough~ not all cloud provider (there are many still willing to charge you an arm and a leg)

Only the ones who can give you below MSRP essentially