it's more like semi-intentional creation of sludge: freakonomics.com/podcast/slud...
the more friction there's, the less spending the university incurs.

depends on the quadrant :)

first transistor (1947) to first personal PCs (1970s)

I am curious which part(s) keeps breaking for you?
We've had ours for 4 years, and so far so good. Folks on reddit say good things about Triflex HX1.
Also, I'd avoid the Shark brand.

I think the first thing I'll try is to see how much time it'll take to run this training github.com/KellerJordan... So far the record on 8xH100 is 5 mins.

So far yes, soon to have a whole cluster :)