People on reddit.com/r/localllama build even more expensive rigs sometimes. Everyone wants to run llama3 70B and eventually the 405B version.

As someone who's buying them, that is not the price. Nor can you just buy one at a time. They are on a OAM/UBB, which is 8.

I’d buy a few at that price. But I can’t.

I mean it's the price of 2 * Apple Mac Pro's. It isn't exactly unheard of.

Just a few weeks ago I spoke to someone who shelled out $10k for running LLM's locally. I've seen more expensive builds as well.

> who exactly is disappointed they won't be able to buy one?

HPC centers and research clusters.