Nvidia-backed Crusoe says GPU prices are rising, including older chips

The signal here is less about Nvidia's newest silicon than about the secondhand tier: if even A100s are pricing above their 2020-21 levels, demand is outrunning the installed base rather than just chasing the frontier. That matters for neoclouds and smaller model developers who depend on older compute, since their cost of capacity is being reset by the same scarcity driving new deployments. Whether this reflects durable compute tightness or a temporary squeeze as buyers anticipate newer capacity is the open question.