The training might be political. Search for "deepseek tibet backdoor"
Try doing it at scale for a whole office. Not trivial.
You could probably do with couple of instances. People rarely use ai 24/7, so right now you can oversubscribe and still have acceptable latency and high utilization rate.
There are plenty of US based hosters racing to optimize and drive efficiencies
Literal race on twitter posting to increase token throughput and drive down costs on these Chinese open source models