What option does he have if he wants to mine right now though? ASIC stuff is INSANE prices now--plus most are delayed till who knows when. Unless you got in on that first buy, ASIC is pretty tough to jump into at this point.
There were FIFTY of these blades auctioned only a week or two ago. They were delivered in 4 days across the globe. It is hard, but its not impossible.
But even FPGAs would have made more sense than such a large GPU farm than this, and they're readily available.