Comparable long-term cost
Compare the same configuration over the same term. Depending on price, finance, utilisation and running costs, owning can cost less — or more.
CUSTOMER-OWNED COMPUTE
Own your compute. Control your future.
From hardware selection and procurement to Arvica Finance, deployment, hosting and operations — one clear plan for long-term compute needs.
Idle capacity can be offered for rental by separate arrangement. Continued use, upgrade, resale or relocation terms are agreed before you sign.
Full purchase, hire purchase and leasing are different: under hire purchase, legal ownership passes only once the agreed conditions are met; under an ordinary lease, ownership may stay with the lessor unless the agreement expressly provides for a transfer. Arvica Finance: Financing options for eligible business customers, subject to Arvica credit assessment, approval and final terms.
Illustrative 3D render of a generic 8-GPU server — not a photo of a specific deployment or OEM model.
01 / WHY OWN
Why consider owning instead of renting indefinitely?
For long-term, steady demand, it is worth comparing the total cost of owning with renting — like for like.
More control over configuration and use
Choose the GPU model, node count and network, and decide which hours are reserved for your own work.
Choices at the end of the term
Continue using, upgrade, resell or relocate — on terms agreed before you sign.
A fixed finance instalment does not fix every running cost: power, bandwidth, insurance and hosting are fixed only to the extent your contracts say so.
02 / LIFECYCLE
One machine, five steps — from configuration to exit
Scroll through the story, or jump to a step. The 3D view is illustrative; the text is the plan.
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Illustrative 3D view, not a photograph
- 01
Select the configuration
Confirm the GPU model, the number of nodes and the GPUs per node separately — an enterprise server node, not consumer graphics cards.
Equipment identity & contract rightsConfiguration under discussion — nothing purchased yet
- GPU model · to confirm
- Nodes · 2 (example)
- GPUs per node · 8 (example)
- 02
Arvica Finance
Financing options for eligible business customers, subject to Arvica credit assessment, approval and final terms. Supply, pricing and payment milestones are set out first; full payment remains an option, and approval is never automatic.
Equipment identity & contract rightsRights as set out in the purchase or Arvica Finance agreement
- Arvica credit assessment
- Approval & final terms
- Purchase documents
- 03
Build & acceptance
Delivery is not "paid, therefore live": the equipment is checked against the serial-number list, racked, cabled and accepted against agreed tests.
Equipment identity & contract rightsAccepted equipment — title passes as the contract provides
- Serial-number list checked
- Racked & cabled
- Acceptance tests
- 04
Managed operations
Operations are visible through agreed monitoring and reports. Renting out idle hours needs your separate authorisation — idle GPUs do not earn income automatically.
Equipment identity & contract rightsOperated under the service agreement
- Self-use
- Optional rental window (opt-in)
- DEMO-NODE-01 · example
- 05
Exit / upgrade: continue, upgrade, resell or relocate
The same equipment has defined paths at the end of the term — not an automatic buy-back at a fixed residual value.
Equipment identity & contract rightsExit under the agreed procedure
- Continue
- Upgrade
- Resell
- Relocate
03 / OWNERSHIP & SAFEGUARDS
Your equipment may not be beside you. Your rights and its status must be clear.
Before you sign, equipment ownership, funding, access, service responsibilities and the exit path are written down. The items below are arrangements to be agreed in your project contract — not services already in place for you.
01Equipment ownership & continuityWho owns the equipment, when title passes, and what happens if Arvica cannot continue operating.Arrangement to be agreed per project
What will be confirmed
- The supplier, the purchaser and the legal owner; when title and risk pass — on full payment; under hire purchase only once its conditions are met; under a lease only if the agreement expressly provides for a transfer (otherwise title can stay with the lessor).
- A serial-number list of the equipment and key components — evidence of identity, not proof of title on its own.
- Outstanding finance and any security interests over the equipment (including Arvica's, where Arvica Finance is used), and how and when they are released.
- A three-party arrangement between you, Arvica and the data-centre operator: acknowledgement of who owns the equipment, continued hosting, and takeover or collection if Arvica cannot continue.
- Whether the facility or Arvica may hold the equipment for unpaid amounts (liens), and how arrears are handled.
- For larger projects, whether a dedicated special-purpose entity (SPV) helps separate risks.
Documents relied on
- Purchase agreement, or Arvica Finance agreement
- Equipment schedule with serial numbers
- Three-party (customer–Arvica–facility) agreement, where agreed
- Your Australian lawyer's PPSR advice
Conditions and limits
- The PPSR records security interests — it is not an ownership register. Whether and what to register (correct grantor, collateral class, timing and priority) depends on the arrangement and is confirmed with your lawyer (and with Arvica where Arvica Finance is used). Computers generally cannot be searched by serial number the way vehicles can.
- Hosting equipment elsewhere is not automatically a PPS lease; applicability is assessed for the specific arrangement.
- An SPV reduces but does not eliminate insolvency risk. Rights in an insolvency or administration are subject to law and the contract — collection is not instant or automatic.
- No facility operator has agreed to any arrangement until it is signed.
02Operating visibility & verificationYou can see how the equipment is running — and check it.Arrangement to be agreed per project
What will be confirmed
- Read-only monitoring of agreed metrics, such as GPU temperature, utilisation and health collected through NVIDIA DCGM where the hardware supports it.
- Node status and serial-number verification against the equipment schedule.
- Monthly availability and maintenance reports.
- Audit or site-inspection rights.
Documents relied on
- Service schedule: metrics, sampling interval, retention, alerts and the availability definition
- Report templates
- Audit clause
Conditions and limits
- BMC / IPMI access depends on the hardware and the facility's security policy and is configured separately; unrestricted BMC administration is not a default.
- An annual site or third-party audit can be agreed, subject to notice, confidentiality, facility rules, reasonable cost and other tenants.
- The monitoring screens on this page are illustrative and are not a service level or historical record.
03Data, access & maintenance approvalWho can touch the machine and your data — and when.Arrangement to be agreed per project
What will be confirmed
- You control workload credentials and keys. Arvica's access is limited to the managed services you choose; extra OS administration is granted separately, and root passwords are not shared by default.
- The BMC is a high-privilege interface (power, remote console, boot media). Proposed controls, agreed per project: least privilege, an isolated management network, MFA or a secure access gateway, on-request grants, operation logs and periodic review.
- Planned maintenance that affects your workloads is notified and approved as agreed; emergency maintenance has defined triggers, minimal actions, notice and an after-action report.
- Drive replacement, warranty returns, reuse and exit are to follow an agreed written media-handling procedure: return, wipe or destruction, with a record or certificate.
- Where Arvica processes personal data for you, how Arvica's published Data Processing Agreement applies to this service is confirmed in the project contract, subject to legal review.
Documents relied on
- Access-control schedule
- Maintenance and emergency procedure
- Media-handling procedure
- Arvica Data Processing Agreement (Legal Center)
Conditions and limits
- BMC access does not make access to data technically impossible; under the controls agreed for the project, it is to be restricted, controlled and logged.
- Keeping failed drives depends on the OEM warranty terms; not every warranty allows it.
- Renting idle capacity needs your opt-in, agreed windows, a floor price, fees and recall terms. Without a verified isolation design, root on the same bare-metal host is never given to you and another tenant at the same time; tenant changes need separate data volumes, credential revocation, verified wipe or re-image, and approval.
- Methods and standards are reviewed by security and legal advisers before they are written into a contract.
04Facility, insurance & responsibilitiesWhere it runs, whose certifications apply, and who insures it.Arrangement to be agreed per project
What will be confirmed
- The actual site and facility operator for your project, and a responsibility table that separates the facility's services from Arvica's.
- The facility's certifications, each with its operator, site, scope, validity and evidence.
- Property insurance for the equipment: who arranges it, the sum insured, territory, transit cover, excess and key exclusions; you named as insured or interested party, and Arvica as loss payee where Arvica Finance is used.
Documents relied on
- Facility service description and certificates, per site
- Insurance certificate or policy schedule
- Responsibility matrix
Conditions and limits
- A facility's certification belongs to its operator, for that site and scope — it is not Arvica's own certification and is not inherited by your equipment automatically.
- Design-tier, as-built and operational certifications are different; SOC 2 reports have a type and a period.
- Any professional or public liability insurance held by Arvica does not replace property insurance for the hardware. Nothing is described as insured until a valid policy is in place.
- A planned facility is presented as planned only, never as operational or certified.
05Disputes, relocation & exitWhat happens if there is a dispute, or you want to move the equipment.Arrangement to be agreed per project
What will be confirmed
- An exit schedule: notice period, settlement of outstanding finance and fees, de-installation, packing, transport and insurance, data migration, handover, third-party approvals and a fee table.
- Resale, buy-back assessment, upgrade and physical relocation as separate paths.
- For cross-border customers, a dispute-resolution clause (for example arbitration) negotiated in the individual contract, with governing law, seat, institution, language, arbitrators and interim relief confirmed in full.
Documents relied on
- Exit and transition schedule
- Fee schedule
- Individual dispute-resolution clause
Conditions and limits
- No promise of exit at any time, a fixed buy-back price or zero exit cost.
- This page does not change Arvica's published agreements.
- Moving equipment across borders needs a fresh review at the time: export and re-export controls, destination, end user and end use, sanctions and the original supply conditions.
06Payments & procurement transparencyWhere your money goes, and when it is released.Arrangement to be agreed per project
What will be confirmed
- A payment path chosen per order: a third-party escrow, direct payment to a verified supplier, or auditable staged releases.
- Each stage — supplier deposit or production, shipment, final acceptance — with its amount, timing, evidence, approval, refund and default handling, and dispute hold.
- Transparent pricing: the upstream equipment price plus an agreed procurement service fee, with delivery, taxes, insurance, finance, installation and monthly services listed separately.
- Supplier invoices from the OEM or an authorised distributor, where confidentiality and commercial rights allow.
Documents relied on
- Payment schedule
- Escrow or payment agreement, if used
- Supplier quotation and invoice
- Procurement service-fee schedule
Conditions and limits
- An ordinary Arvica account is never described as escrow, and no escrow provider is named until a real agreement exists.
- If the supplier requires a deposit before production, not all hardware money waits for acceptance — the schedule states which part is paid when.
- A distributor's invoice is not an OEM invoice, and some third-party terms are confidential.
This page describes the business. It is not a contract, a finance offer or approval, legal advice or evidence that any safeguard is already in place; the signed project contract governs.
04 / VISIBLE OPERATIONS
What agreed monitoring can look like
An interface design for the reporting that can be agreed in a service schedule: asset list, GPU health, node status, maintenance log and a monthly report.
Asset list (example)
Example serials: DEMO-SN-0001 to DEMO-SN-0016 (fictional)
DEMO-NODE-01 · GPU health (example)
| GPU | Temp | Utilisation | Health |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPU 0 | 55 °C | 65% | OK |
| GPU 1 | 72 °C | 81% | OK |
| GPU 2 | 66 °C | 63% | OK |
| GPU 3 | 60 °C | 80% | OK |
| GPU 4 | 54 °C | 62% | OK |
| GPU 5 | 71 °C | 78% | OK |
| GPU 6 | 65 °C | 95% | OK |
| GPU 7 | 59 °C | 77% | OK |
Maintenance log (example)
- · DEMO-NODE-02
Planned firmware update — approved window - · DEMO-NODE-01
Fan module check — no customer impact - · DEMO-NODE-02
Drive replaced — media-handling record filed
Monthly report (example)
DEMO · Month 1 · Maintenance hours 6 h
Availability definitions, sampling and retention are agreed in the service schedule; no example availability figure is shown here so it cannot be read as a service level.
06 / OWN VS RENT
Owning vs renting: a transparent cash model
Compare the same configuration, term and usage. Every price is entered by you or requested in a quote — this page presets no price, rate or income.
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Still needed (enter an assumption, 0 where none applies, or request a quote): Equipment price, One-time fees, Refundable deposit, Hosting & power, Network / bandwidth, Managed operations, Equipment insurance, Other monthly cost, Down payment, Annual interest rate, Rental price per GPU-hour, Upfront rental fees, Refundable rental deposit
Request a quoteFormula, assumptions and limits
- Inputs are entered by you on this page (source: your assumption or a quote you hold); today's date; one currency, no conversion.
- Monthly finance payment = P·r / (1 − (1 + r)^−n), r = annual rate / 12; with r = 0, P / n.
- Taxes are included only if you include them in the inputs. This is not tax advice.
- Displayed amounts are rounded to cents; calculations keep full precision.
- Illustrative calculation only — not a quote, a finance offer or a finance approval, and not a guarantee of savings, income or residual value.
05 / IDLE CAPACITY & EXIT
Your hours first. Rental only if you authorise it.
Self-use
By default the capacity is yours to use. Nothing is rented out unless you opt in.
Rental by separate authorisation
- You opt in
- Agree windows, floor price and fees
- Isolated tenant change (verified wipe / re-image)
- Recall on agreed notice
Rental is not on by default, and it is not a guaranteed income, a fixed return or a lease-back.
At the end of the term
- Continue using
- Upgrade
- Resell
- Relocate
Each path follows the agreed exit procedure — not an exit at any time or a fixed buy-back.
07 / QUESTIONS
Questions customers ask before they own compute
Is the machine mine? What happens if Arvica cannot continue operating?
It depends on the structure you choose. With a full purchase, title passes as the purchase agreement provides; under hire purchase, title passes only once its conditions are met; under an ordinary lease, title may stay with the lessor unless the agreement expressly provides for a transfer; and, where Arvica Finance is used, Arvica's rights as financier stay in place until the finance is repaid and released. The project contract is to name the legal owner and include the serial-number list. Continuity if Arvica cannot continue — for example a three-party arrangement with the facility operator — is agreed per project and is not automatic.
Who provides the finance, and how is it approved?
Arvica Finance: Financing options for eligible business customers, subject to Arvica credit assessment, approval and final terms. Each application is assessed on its own. Approval is not automatic, and there is no standard deposit, interest rate or credit limit. This page does not apply for finance or run a credit check, and the calculator is indicative only.
I can't see the machine. How do I know it is running properly?
Through the monitoring and reports agreed in your service schedule — for example read-only metrics, node status, serial-number verification, monthly availability and maintenance reports — plus agreed audit rights. Sampling, retention and the availability definition are to be written into that schedule.
Who can access the machine and my data?
Under the proposed access schedule, you control your workload credentials and keys, and Arvica's access is limited to the managed services you choose, under least privilege, logging and agreed approval for maintenance. Under the controls agreed for your project, high-privilege interfaces such as the BMC are to be restricted and logged — and even then they are not a guarantee that data access is technically impossible.
Is the facility reliable?
Each project proposal is to name its actual site and facility operator, with that operator's certifications (site, scope, validity and evidence) and a table of who is responsible for what. A facility's certification is not Arvica's own, and a planned facility is shown as planned.
What if there is a dispute? Can I move the equipment?
The exit schedule agreed for your project sets out notice, settlement of outstanding amounts, de-installation, transport, insurance, data migration and fees. Dispute resolution is agreed in your contract. Moving equipment across borders needs an export-control, sanctions and end-use review at the time. There is no promise of exit at any time or a fixed buy-back price.
How are my payments protected?
Each order is to state its payment path — a third-party escrow, direct payment to a verified supplier, or auditable staged releases — and what is paid at each stage, with evidence and approval. Pricing shows the upstream equipment price and an agreed procurement service fee separately. No escrow provider is named until a real agreement is in place.
These answers describe what a project contract proposed by Arvica is to cover. Nothing applies until that contract is signed.
08 / YOUR PLAN
Build your compute plan
Tell us the configuration and how you want to pay. The next page collects your contact details for the existing enterprise enquiry — no payment, finance application or credit check.
Total GPUs: 16
Arvica Finance: Financing options for eligible business customers, subject to Arvica credit assessment, approval and final terms.
2 × 8 B300 · 16 GPUs · 36 months · Australia
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