Whilst your average person at home may not be able to fork out $1.4M, this is in the afordable range of many medium to large businesses, and opens up access to

Whilst your average person at home may not be able to fork out $1.4M, this is in the afordable range of many medium to large businesses, and opens up access to private compute clusters* The highest cost for supercomputers isn't the raw hardware - it's the power consumption. This also includes the cooling needs of a large cluster. Over the lifespan of a cluster, these will add up to a significant multiple of their base cost. * of course, this may not be the ideal way to provide access to these services