Louisiana’s Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal bought two Dell servers with NVIDIA chips at about $65,000 each while continuing to evaluate commercial AI products. The court’s stated reason is experimental rather than ideological: token prices, subscriptions and operating costs will change, so it wants to learn from both local development and vendor offerings.
A Louisiana court is testing local AI without pretending the build-versus-buy choice is settled
Two on-premises servers support bounded workflow experiments alongside continued vendor evaluation.
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