https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSxomAgD8s4 This is how ridiculous workstations are today: 80-200k tower with 4x GPU (A100 / H100).
This probably has a life time of 2-3 years at most. But it's a super critical ingredient to win the modern AI/ML race.
For this reason, companies such as Tesla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol5hwjr48Q4 has been looking into cloud solution: by leveraging the shared power compute in the data center, you can improve the developer experience for critical workload like such.
At the key of all these is #Bazel and the ability to granularly split up your build into thousands of small actions that can be parallel executed on top of a build farm, shared between hundred of users.