So what's the cost separating them from placing this box at their premise?
Network throughout?
Plus power and cooling.
Plus space, manpower and security.
The napkin math should figure in the base amount of GPU's i need to buy in order to be able to place it in a data center otherwise this math is not relevant. Because surely any place can cool, power, and protect a single gpu easily.
Not having physical access to my assets doesn't sound secure at all, and even a residential internet connection could handle this throughout.