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Because early H100 and GB200 deployments experienced failures, sophisticated customers may pay more for later-deployed units instead of first-off-the-rack units.

Evan Conrad · The Programmable Data Center — Evan Conrad, SF Compute · 20 Oct 2026

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“Like this is a thing that we're thinking about but haven't done basically. Um the early G_B_ two hundreds broke, the early H_ one hundreds broke, um and so if you were buying H_ one hundreds or you're buying G_B_ two hundreds, you might really want the ones that were deployed after a certain time because you're not getting the first G_D_ ones off the rack. And so if you're a super sophisticated customer, you may be willing to pay more um because”
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