Comment by dennysora-main

It's mainly just my personal preference to run a local machine. It gives me better privacy and security, and I can keep all my heavy data and projects right there.

Cloud rentals are usually billed hourly. Since I constantly tweak the architecture and run it again, having a local rig completely kills any cost anxiety—it's just a one-off payment.

Plus, regular users can't even get access to H100s anyway. I applied on AWS and GCP before and couldn't get them.