[TkTech]

For many companies (country-dependent) that's not really why they use cloud services vs purchasing. It's tax shenanigans and business process overhead. OpEx vs CapEx, and a small (%) bump in the huge AWS bill no one will even notice or a $30k+ invoice for hardware that has to go through rigorous review and 3 departments.

Same reason people pay for things through the AWS marketplace (like Vanta) instead of having to go through their invoicing process.

[codethief]

Good point. Maybe there'll be companies that maintain your on-premise GPU cluster just like there are companies that service the coffee machine in your office?