> How many new things can you discover from the same team and same research?

That all depends on how you measure discoveries. The most common metric is... publications. Publications are what advance your career and are what you are evaluated on. The content may or may not matter (lol who reads your papers?) but the number certainly does. So the best way to advance your career is to write a minimum viable paper and submit as often as possible. I think we all forget how Goodhart's Law comes to bite everyone in the ass.

Well, to be sure, mouse research consistently produces amazing cures for cancer, insomnia, lost limbs, and even gravity itself. Sure, none of it translates to humans, but it's an important source of headlines for high impact journals and science columnists.

They sell them on the spot market, so there’s someone that would consume the baseline compute.