a16z: GPU rental rates defy depreciation, H200 up 143% YTD
elonmusk · x · 2026-10-25
- a16z charts show GPU rental prices are not following the 6-year depreciation curve: YTD changes include H200 +143%, B200 +111%, RTX PRO 6000 +73%, H100 +54%, and even the 6-year-old A100 is above its start-of-year rate (+9%).
- NVIDIA AI Infra framed the data as evidence that AI infrastructure is a durable, investable asset, with new workloads landing on its fungible platform; Elon Musk reposted it.
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