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.

@davidgerard.co.uk @edzitron.com

@digitalraven yep. 😞😡

For our medical imaging researchers, I ordered a ~$60k server in October. The same config quoted yesterday is ~$127k.