Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. £28,000.
Quote today for the _exact same machine_. £90,500
This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean.
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@digitalraven Our compute vendor warned us that after March 30 their prices are going up 250% and to order everything we need before then, so we scrambled to put in a $30M order by this week.
Yesterday they told us they not only wouldn't be filling that order (we can try to resubmit it at the higher prices), but they won't guarantee they can fill anything at all for the rest of the year.
Things is gettin interesting.
@andthisismrspeacock @digitalraven @stroz and it's been a lot worse than that for people who can't make $30M orders, for some time now.
Equipment they'd already paid for sold out from under them, and being told it'll get filled in 2027 maybe, tough luck.
Orders that were allegedly already being built suddenly being cancelled.
Even systems that the hyperscalers are too stupid to use or admin, suddenly getting shoved back quarters at a time for lack of RAM or storage.
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