Comment on AI profitability is mathematically impossibleparentComments−anamax3moGPUs will fully depreciate after 3 years (6-year-old A100s are still in very high demand!)Depreciation is a tax thing. While it is supposed to track useful life, it almost never does.For example, houses are depreciated on a 28-year schedule. I'm typing this from a house built in 1902....Google has yet to decommission any of its Trilliums, and the V1s shipped in 2015.The prices to rent V2 (2017) and later are on https://cloud.google.com/tpu/pricing .−aesthesia3moYep, in their analysis depreciation meant "get no useful work out of the GPU after this point," though.
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Depreciation is a tax thing. While it is supposed to track useful life, it almost never does.
For example, houses are depreciated on a 28-year schedule. I'm typing this from a house built in 1902....
Google has yet to decommission any of its Trilliums, and the V1s shipped in 2015.
The prices to rent V2 (2017) and later are on https://cloud.google.com/tpu/pricing .
Yep, in their analysis depreciation meant "get no useful work out of the GPU after this point," though.