Guides to owning GPUs
What GPU servers cost, how they earn, and the routes in, with public prices and our ballpark costs.
Guides
- Owning GPUs: a guide for family officesWhat eight B300 servers cost, how they earn rent, what has gone wrong before, and how GPUs compare with aircraft and solar.
- Own vs rent GPUs (AI startups)A 3-year reservation bills like owning: 32 B300 GPUs reserved vs owned, the cash it takes, and when owning wins.
- How to build a GPU clusterA bill of materials builder for GPU servers, switches, optics, storage, power, and colocation.
- Renting out GPUs: marketplaces vs contractsWhat Vast.ai, Runpod, and TensorDock keep and require of hosts, and a marketplace vs contract calculator.
- Ways to invest in GPUs, comparedStocks, data center REITs, funds, GPU bonds and onchain vaults, loans, and owning servers, side by side.
- Accelerated depreciation for servers and GPUsU.S. federal tax depreciation for GPU servers: MACRS, bonus depreciation, section 179, recapture, leases, and state rules.
Calculators
- GPU earnings calculatorWhat owning GPU servers can earn, with ballpark costs and real rental rates.
- Rent vs own calculatorCloud GPU rent next to the cost of owning the servers, for startups.
- MACRS depreciation calculatorYear-by-year tax depreciation for GPU servers from the IRS MACRS tables, with bonus depreciation and section 179 amounts you enter.
- Colocation pricing by metroColocation asking rates per kW a month by North American metro and deal size, with power costs and signed rents, each from a dated public source.
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