Why spend tens of thousands of euros running LLMs locally? Reddit debates
servermeta_net · reddit · 2026-10-14
A Redditor asks why people spend tens of thousands of euros on local inference setups when rented GPUs cost a fraction and hardware depreciates fast — arguing privacy alone can't explain it.
The thread surfaces the community's real motivations: uncensored unlimited use, near-zero marginal cost after upfront spend, immunity to provider price hikes and deprecations, and hardware tinkering itself.
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