In the long arc of technological disruption, the assumption has always been that yesterday's tools become tomorrow's relics — but Nvidia is quietly rewriting that assumption. Despite being nearly four years old and outpaced by newer architectures, the H100 GPU has seen rental prices rise 22 percent in a single month, suggesting that the AI infrastructure buildout is broad and layered enough to sustain demand across generations of hardware. The bears who wagered on rapid chip depreciation as the crack in Nvidia's foundation may have misread not just a company, but the shape of a technological e