Aakash GuptaLead source
Somebody's selling a six-year-old AI supercomputer on eBay for about a quarter of what it cost new. Rent it out around the clock and it earns back the whole $59.7 million in about a year. So why dump it? The answer sits in the middle of a $176 billion fight on Wall Street. A Minnesota reseller listed 300 racks pulled out of a hyperscaler's cloud, with 9,600 Nvidia A100 chips and 1.4 petabytes of RAM inside, for $59.7 million or best offer (plus $50 overnight shipping, which the replies are having way too much fun with). That works out to about $6,200 per GPU with the servers, networking and racks thrown in, or $199,000 a rack. Funny thing is, $199,000 is what Nvidia charged for a single A100 server back in 2020, and now it gets you four. Hold the champagne on the AI bubble popping.…Read original on X