GPUs are nearly impossible to lease on demand
Greg Osuri of Akash on Unlocking DePIN Capabilities for AI Model Training (Nebular)
“GPUs today are nearly impossible to lease on demand — on demand in the sense, use for however long you need… if you try and go to Amazon today and try to rent a chip, it’s impossible to get on demand, you have to get into a long contract before they can even talk to you.” — 00:02:53
Context: Core thesis of the talk; he adds that going direct to Nvidia means a two-year wait, and Lambda/CoreWeave require 1-2 year prepaid contracts with 3-6 month delivery. Quote spans into the next caption block.