# A100 providers can recover hardware cost within a year

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-01-09
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Akash: $300 Million Incentives w/Greg Osuri \| CEO of Overclock Labs,Founder & Akash Network (Bare Metal Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:21:36 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gI5CWNpDgw&t=1296s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-01-09-a100-providers-can-recover-hardware-cost-within-a-4yvd/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "A100 providers can recover hardware cost within a year," Akash: $300 Million Incentives w/Greg Osuri \| CEO of Overclock Labs,Founder & Akash Network (Bare Metal Podcast), 9 Jan 2024, 00:21:36. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gI5CWNpDgw&t=1296s

## Quote — verbatim

> If an A100 cost about $11,000, if you're making a thousand bucks a month, which is about $1.40 an hour... a year amortization of the chip is very profitable... compared to real estate, compared to any other asset class. If you're getting back your money 100% within a year, I think that's very profitable.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On supplier-side economics; adds that even at half price you amortize in two years against a 5-6 year GPU lifespan. (Caption renders the price as "$111,000"; A100 list price context indicates ~$11k.)