Acres may be a small startup of only about 70 people, but it is one of a growing number of niche data companies quietly assembling GPU clusters outside the walls of Big Tech, in a bet that owning their own compute will be a competitive edge. Andreessen Horowitz famously secured its own GPU cluster that it rents out to startups in exchange for equity. And individual startups including the video hosting startup Gumlet have said they are hosting their own hardware, too. This hardware can cost more than $25,000 per GPU, plus ongoing energy costs. During supply shortages like last year, it can be difficult for smaller companies to obtain them without months on waiting lists.
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埃隆·马斯克：我们仍然有很多人在制造东西。特斯拉的直接雇员在制造东西，或者说基本上工厂里的人要么在制造，要么在管理制造人员，大约有 10 万人。所以我们有很多人，特斯拉的总人数大约是 15 万，其中三分之二，以这样或那样的形式在工厂里。在我们的供应商体系里可能有一百万或两百万人，所以，这涉及到很多人。