According to Weights & Biases, my personal, not work related account was in the top 5% of users, and I trained models for a total of nearly 5000 hours - so if I rented equivalent compute to this machine, I’d probably be out 5-10k so far - so this machine is very close to paying for itself if it already hasn’t.

Also, not having to do the environment setup typically required for cloud stuff is a nice bonus.