Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. Is it the cores that throws you off? (Those are used for the simulation, not the training). Second, I believe those were pr

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. Is it the cores that throws you off? (Those are used for the simulation, not the training). Second, I believe those were preemptible cores, so that's $60/hr for the cores and then $20/hr for V100s (which is what I think they used). $80/hr isn't bad considering how much a (small!) team of researchers costs.