... for AI... which people have to convince themselves they 'need'. I am a user, I have a 1m$ rack for my small company for AI, but I have currently 189 racks that cost about 15k one off per rack. And those make us a LOT more money than the AI ones ; most are departmental apps or websites that take very little processing power and are low on everything while people pay nice money to keep them going. Our support is better than the rest; you can just call me or come to my house and we'll do something. Not many clients leave, ever. For the past 30 years. I buy 5-10 year old servers which are complete overkill for 99% of my clients (some are fortune 500 companies but departmental stuff) and they just never leave. Makes vastly more money than AI and we are still cheaper than AWS and the department does not have to get a flexible budget (like they would have to if AWS) with us. We just have the same fixed price + yearly inflation correction and that's it. For 30 years.
... for AI... which people have to convince themselves they 'need'. I am a user, I have a 1m$ rack for my small company for AI, but I have currently 189 racks that cost about 15k one off per rack. And those make us a LOT more money than the AI ones ; most are departmental apps or websites that take very little processing power and are low on everything while people pay nice money to keep them going. Our support is better than the rest; you can just call me or come to my house and we'll do something. Not many clients leave, ever. For the past 30 years. I buy 5-10 year old servers which are complete overkill for 99% of my clients (some are fortune 500 companies but departmental stuff) and they just never leave. Makes vastly more money than AI and we are still cheaper than AWS and the department does not have to get a flexible budget (like they would have to if AWS) with us. We just have the same fixed price + yearly inflation correction and that's it. For 30 years.