Mastodawn

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

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Bill Woodcock Mar 4

@digitalraven

Yep. We have to keep up with queries to the root and TLD nameservers, and the machines we need to do that have tripled in price in the last three months.

I'm _really_ looking forward to this bubble bursting. I cannot express in words, how much I yearn for that day to arrive.

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Bill Woodcock

@digitalraven

I just checked the list price of the servers we use. Since December, it's gone up from $118k to $494k each. I mean, nobody pays list, but the folks with the shortest discounts get served first in markets like this. Which means that the AI bubble will get served before critical infrastructure.