Because paying $200 a month is a way better deal, at least for now. Not that all AI usage should be with the privacy invaders, but a lot of it is worth offloading to the best, especially while doing so costs them money :)

Because you couldn't predict the future.

I just got a semi

And bitty was higher so it was like 1/4 the cost

In a few years these things are going to be incredibly cheap.

nostr:nprofile1qqsw9n8heusyq0el9f99tveg7r0rhcu9tznatuekxt764m78ymqu36csxjejf what makes it a fifty thousand dollar box, the drives or the gpus? i priced an archive build last winter and the spinning disks alone came to more than the rest of the machine.