Building your own PC for AI is 10x cheaper than renting out GPUs on cloud, apparently

So, you've hunkered down and finally completed that online course on machine learning. Now, you have all sorts of ideas running through your mind on developing your own intelligent code and neural networks. You assume you'll have to fork out a considerable wedge for a decent GPU-powered number-crunching rig, because your handy lightweight laptop is not going to cut it during the intensive network training process. So, seeing as you'll dabble with this on and off initially, you're looking at renting out GPUs on cloud. Your heart drops a little when you total up the cloud instance costs.