Comment by lesuorac
If 1/10 investment lasts 100 years that seems pretty good to me. Plus I'd bet a lot of the 9/10 of that investment had a lot of the material cost re-coup'd when scrapping the steel. I don't think you're going to recoup a lot of money from the H100s.
Much like LLMs. There are approximately 10 reasonable players giving it a go, and, unless this whole AI thing goes away, never to be seen again, it is likely that one of them will still be around in 100 years.
H100s are effectively consumables used in the construction of the metaphorical rail. The actual rail lines had their own fare share of necessary tools that retained little to no residual value after use as well. This isn't anything unique.