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Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says
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alapakala quokk.au alapakala@quokk.au
Joined: 2026-03-16
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Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/16/datacenters-pollution-electronics

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onlinepersona programming.dev onlinepersona@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-09-01
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Why though? Won't there be a huge second hand market?
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siravious lemmy.world siravious@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-23
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onlinepersona wrote:
Why though? Won't there be a huge second hand market?

Agree, plus pent up demand. Like me and everyone else could really use some normally priced components for a change lol
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tatterdemalion programming.dev tatterdemalion@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-07-02
#4 · Quote Reply

Aww yea, gimme those sweet cheap HDDs.
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piccolo sh.itjust.works piccolo@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-09-15
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onlinepersona wrote:
Why though? Won't there be a huge second hand market?

And miss out on the tax writeoffs when they send the equipment to landfills?
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far_university1990 reddthat.com far_university1990@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-08-15
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siravious wrote:
Agree, plus pent up demand. Like me and everyone else could really use some normally priced components for a change lol

And people will use datacenter stuff. There are already pcie card for the weird smi card interface for the big nvidia server card, same for amd stuff. Small epyc board exist already. Hacker will get every cheap electronic to work.
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