> colos are very hands off
That’s a pretty broad statement? Maybe a more correct one would be that some are hands off enough that some people might find them worth it.
And that really only addresses one problem. The other one is the coordination problem. You go in on a $30k GPU with 3 other people. So each person puts down 7.5k. But then one person wants to pull out, and so every remaining person needs to put in an extra $2.5k on top, and they’re questioning whether $10k for a chatbot is really worth it.
I've never heard of a colo looking into their customers servers. They're not in the business of monitoring their clients.
I don't understand the coordination problem – if you want to pull out you have to find someone else to buy your share?