I almost got a Tenure Track position at a Data Science Faculty in Virginia and I think them not having a HPC was the single issue that blew this move (from both

I almost got a Tenure Track position at a Data Science Faculty in Virginia and I think them not having a HPC was the single issue that blew this move (from both sides). During interviews, I was asking the dean how they set up their HPC - turned out, they hadn't. I then asked a Professor in the next review round how they teach their students without a HPC: > "I buy all resources on AWS - it's painfull because I have to contact AWS almost monthly for accidental over-billing, but we don't have a solution". All of this made me really sceptical, since coming from a big University in Germany, we have unlimited HPC resources for free. I have 16 VMs, the biggest one 125 GB Memory, I can set those up or move around how I want. No space limitations - in need 10 TB of space for 3 month? Open a service ticket, 3 hours later it's available. Ports need to be opened worldwide to the web? No problem. Need a Jupyter Hub Cluster on Kubernetes? Here you go. This has really improved my work (quality, performance, and convenience) so much. I was once coordinator of a research project where we had 30k EUR left and didn't know what to do with it. I contacted our HPC and asked if they want the money - answer: "30k really isn't worth the effort, we don't know what to do with it atm."