How many operations per second, or perhaps more precisely FLOPS can I buy for £1, or if you prefer $1?
Some crude back-of-the-envelope guesstimation shows that £1 should buy you more than 5 GFLOPS (general purpose) these days, meaning to buy the hardware. There are also operations costs and overhead to keep running; you can get a few GFLOPS per watt or even much more.
How much are you really going to pay? More guesstimation indicates your £1 will buy you a TFLOPS for an hour. But I have no confidence in that unless people chime in with how much they are really paying.
Is there a chart showing the price history for thease idearly together?
FLOPS on Wikipedia, also "Performance per watt"