> If you're a faculty member at an eligible institution, you can apply for Google Cloud education credits to teach using Google Cloud. The credits grant you a spending allowance as a Cloud Billing account credit, and can be used for all Google Cloud services

https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/edu-grants#:~:t....

When I looked into this before, it had the problem that the student/faculty member had to accept unlimited liability if something goes wrong - and when you're learning, things do go wrong. If a student gets a bill for $50,000, what do you do?

Also no way to set a hard limit in gcp

It seems your dystopian nightmares are rather passé

During grad school, quite a few professors had access to TPU’s from Google Cloud Research Program. I imagine with LLM scale now, it would be much harder to get access, but still possible if you’re from a big name institution.

Isn't this pretty standard? As a student I got plenty of cloud credit.

This is already happening.