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Speculation by a non-accountant:

At the end Nvidia retains ownership of what are probably very low value assets.

Contrast that with car leases: there is a robust market for used cars.

Nvidia is in effect financing the GPUs by not requiring the full payment up front.

Do the lease payments add up to the total cost?

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The GPUs do/might lose value over time, but perhaps Nvidia is betting that they wont? Going by recent years, their value went up in some cases.

EDIT: Interesting note

> CPUs historically have 5-10 years of useful life , while GPUs in AI datacenters last 1-3 years in practice , despite 6-year accounting assumptions.30,31 Evidence from Google architects shows GPUs at 60-70% utilization survive 1-2 years , with 3 years maximum.31 Meta’s Llama 3 training experienced 9% annual GPU failure rates , suggesting 27% failure over 3 years.31