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 LLM or American oligarchs?
@manux LLM bros and their bubble in particular. To blame all oligarchs (and there is a lot to blame them for in general) absolves the LLM shitheads from specific responsibility.