Black Market Prices for B300 Servers Remain Firm
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-15
This post argues that a smuggled B300 server with 8 GPUs is considered 'reasonably priced' at $1 million, as such compute assets remain highly valuable by normal market standards.
The author's core message is that AI is becoming a 'money printer', pushing GPUs and compute into an extremely tight pricing environment. Replies suggest the actual price could be 2–4 times the base GPU cost, further highlighting the massive premium on this hardware.
Related event: DeepSeek inference economics: sizing the GPU fleet behind its ARR(8 posts)→
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