[CardenB]

Do you have some information to share to support your bias against leasing especially with a depreciating asset?

[manux]

In Canada, all three major AI research centers use clusters created with public money. These clusters receive regular additional hardware as new generations of GPUs become available. Considering how these institutions work, I'm pretty confident they've considered the alternatives (renting, AWS, etc). So that's one data point.

[photonthug]

sure, I’ll hand it over after you spend your own time first to show that everything everywhere that’s owned instead of leased is a poor financial decision.