A Minnesota reseller listed 9,600 A100s on eBay for $59.7 million, shipping included

Core 4 Solutions, a Minnesota IT hardware seller, has listed a decommissioned 300-rack AI cluster on eBay for $59.7 million or best offer. The listing advertises up to 9,600 Nvidia A100 GPUs, 4,200 AMD EPYC processors, free local pickup, free FedEx Ground, and $50 overnight shipping. The shipping options, not the silicon, carried it to the top of r/LocalLLaMA.

What the money buys

Each rack holds four compute nodes and three management nodes. Every compute node has two 64-core EPYC Rome chips, eight A100 40GB SXM4 GPUs, 1TB of DDR4-2933 and eight Mellanox ConnectX-6 200Gb/s cards, plus an FPGA; the management nodes add two EPYC chips and 192GB of memory apiece. Multiplied out, that is 32 A100s and 14 processors per rack, 268,800 cores and roughly 1.4 petabytes of memory. Tom's Hardware reports the seller describes the gear as used, decommissioned from a hyperscaler cloud, and made of fully functional ZT A100 racks. Two clusters are available, returns are not accepted, the warranty runs 30 days, and export-compliance conditions apply.

The component bill is $28 million

Tom's Hardware priced the parts itself: about $24 million for the A100s, $3 million for the EPYC Rome chips and $1.1 million for the DDR4, which comes to roughly $28.1 million in core components before racks, cooling, power supplies and network cards. The listing's own arithmetic is no more comforting. At $59.7 million for 9,600 accelerators, a buyer pays about $6,219 per A100 40GB, and at 300 racks the ask works out to about $199,000 per rack. Those numbers are not absurd for 2020 silicon, but they are not a discount, because they price Ampere parts that have no roadmap, a 30-day warranty and no returns as though the clock stopped too.

One 2026 rack costs a tenth of the ask

Tom's Hardware puts a current Nvidia GB300 NVL72 at up to $6.5 million and a Vera Rubin VR200 NVL72 at up to $7.8 million per unit. One of those racks costs about a tenth of what Core 4 wants for 300 racks of decommissioned hardware. The comparison cuts both ways: per rack, and even per GPU, the A100 iron looks cheap, while the invoice is for a data hall. Power, cooling, spares, networking and the staff to keep 300 racks of fading accelerators alive are not in the listing. Neither is a migration path.

Tom's Hardware counted 11 people watching the listing and one with it in a cart at the time of writing, which is about the attention a $59.7 million best-offer listing deserves. Nobody prices at best offer expecting to collect it. Whoever does buy this is buying a building with a maintenance contract, not a bargain, and the shipping is the only line on the invoice that is priced honestly.