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As someone who've tried for some weeks, it really seems like it's out-of-stock literally everywhere. The demand seems to be a lot higher than the supply at the moment, so much that I'm considering buying one myself instead of renting servers with it.

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Does it make sense that all the GPUs are bought out? They each provide a return for mining in the short-term. In the long term, they can be used to run A(G)I models, which will be very very useful

This is the GPU the parent is talking about https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/a100/

This still makes sense! TPUs are useful for AI, which itself will be very very useful. It’s almost like it’s the best investment. That’s why smart players buy them all. Maybe I’m going out-of-topic.

And even if vendors does say they have it, or can get it, it ended up taking us 4-6 months before systems were online.

Did you check Lambda or Exxact?

Yes, nor Lambda Labs or Exxact Corporation have them available last time I checked (last week). Both citing high demand as the reason for it being unavailable.

We (Lambda) have all of the different NVIDIA GPUs in stock ---- can you send a message to sales@lambdalabs.com and check in again with your requirements? We're seeing a lot more stock these days as the supply chain crisis of 2021 comes to an end.

I talked with you (Lambda Labs) just a week ago about the A100 specifically and you said that the demand was higher than the supply, and that people should check once a day or something like that to see if it's available in your dashboard. If you clearly have it available now, please say so outright instead of trying to push some other offer on me in emails :)

Howdy, I run [Crusoe Cloud](https://crusoecloud.com/) and we just launched an alpha of an A100 and A40 Cloud offering--we've got capacity at a reasonable price!

If you're interested in giving us a shot, feel free to shoot me an email at mike at crusoecloud dot com.

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