this is how finding GPUs goes: 1. someone says they have GPUs 2. you ask & turns out they have a lead on an OEM that will ship in maybe Q1 ‘27. 3. you ask & turns out they haven’t found colo space, haven’t ordered networking. 4. you ask & the OEM is SMC with optics in the hot aisle. back of your mind you also know SMC always rugs & ships late. 4. you ask & turns out they’re racked with hydra and they don’t even have final seller’s rights. 5. you say you’ll do $4.9/hr 10% prepay for RFS Jan ‘27. effectively betting there’s a 60% chance it goes live and you get ‘em 6. jan comes, not live, you get 50% of your prepay back and is what it is. everyone’s pissed. other scenario: 1. guy says he has GPUs RFS tmrw 2. you ask and get test node for 1hr, it has infiniband & storage nodes on network 3. he says $10/hr, sign in next two hrs 100% prepay or piss off. 3. startup knows they’ll make $20/hr so they grit their teeth & snap call sign plus wire. BMC without of band access is given same day, everyone’s happy! speculative market for yotta compute available maybe Q1 maybe Q3 ‘27 in yucatan is completely different than nodes with immediate RFS. anything under $7/hr probably isn’t real.