I don’t know how’s the pricing, but maybe it’s worth building a separate server with second-hand TPU. Used server CPUs and RAMs are apparently quite affordable in the US (assuming you live there) so maybe it’s the case for TPUs as well. And commercial GPUs/TPUs have more VRAM

This has little to do with socialism/capitalism and more with that fact that the economy was centrally (terribly) governed and most of the products were exported to the “friend nation USSR”

If you could even get all that, and if you could you had to queue for days

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Do I understand it incorrectly or does it allow them to webstream my home address???