A year of renting an H100 costs $37.6K as warnings grow about tightening compute supply
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-03
teortaxesTex quotes michaelchomsky's warning that compute is about to "get ugly" and anyone who needs it should scramble to secure it now. To ground the point, he notes a concrete figure: renting a single H100 for a year costs roughly $37.6K, underscoring how expensive sustained access to frontier GPU capacity already is.
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