# 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 offices](https://managedgpus.com/guides/family-office-gpu-economics) - What 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)](https://managedgpus.com/guides/own-vs-rent-gpus-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 cluster](https://managedgpus.com/guides/how-to-build-a-gpu-cluster) - A bill of materials builder for GPU servers, switches, optics, storage, power, and colocation.
- [Renting out GPUs: marketplaces vs contracts](https://managedgpus.com/guides/rent-out-gpus) - What Vast.ai, Runpod, and TensorDock keep and require of hosts, and a marketplace vs contract calculator.
- [Ways to invest in GPUs, compared](https://managedgpus.com/guides/ways-to-invest-in-gpus) - Stocks, data center REITs, funds, GPU bonds and onchain vaults, loans, and owning servers, side by side.
- [Accelerated depreciation for servers and GPUs](https://managedgpus.com/guides/accelerated-depreciation) - U.S. federal tax depreciation for GPU servers: MACRS, bonus depreciation, section 179, recapture, leases, and state rules.

## Calculators

- [GPU earnings calculator](https://managedgpus.com/gpu-roi-calculator) - What owning GPU servers can earn, with ballpark costs and real rental rates.
- [Rent vs own calculator](https://managedgpus.com/rent-vs-own) - Cloud GPU rent next to the cost of owning the servers, for startups.
- [MACRS depreciation calculator](https://managedgpus.com/macrs-depreciation-calculator) - Year-by-year tax depreciation for GPU servers from the IRS MACRS tables, with bonus depreciation and section 179 amounts you enter.
- [Colocation pricing by metro](https://managedgpus.com/colocation-pricing) - Colocation 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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Source: https://managedgpus.com/guides