https://chaos.social/@sa/116230479201296074

Could just grow some weed with them too!

I mean, it's right in the name!

The oligarchs will bulldoze and crush the infrastructure, rather than let the people grow food with it. Come on, where's the profit in that? Not /s. They seriously think this way. We'd have to take the equipment by force in order do to this.

Using decomissioned corporate hardware used to steal from everyone is so cyberpunk it hurts.

Not having LLMs at all would be solarpunk IMHO.

I really need to find out where the local data center sells their decommissioned hardware.

The way things are going, they will turn old data centers into "detainment facilities".

I know it's not completely serious but a grow tent that size would be half the cost, a fraction of the weight, and is designed to be in humid environments

Actually, usually hardware is dumped onto the used market or to recycling facilities due to the cost of disposal if they performed it themselves.

So rather than a lack of profit, this would be considered a removed expense (handling decommissioned hardware). Definitely keep an eye out for these! :)

From experience: craigslist, government auction websites (if relevant), and eBay.

You could also just go to your local e-waste center and try your luck.

The 19” rack is a standard that precedes computers, so you can find a lot of non-computer gear that fits in them. Synthesisers and studio audio gear are one example, then there’s test equipment and such. The military undoubtedly has a lot of specialised gear that also fits 19” racks (the form factor may have originated there, perhaps during WW2). It wouldn’t be surprising if there was non-electrical gear that was designed for mounting in these universally available racks.

How do you know how poop tastes?

Not without an air filter

I regret asking.

I just want like a 4tb drive or three for not crazy money 😭

imagine how many minecraft servers you can run in that

like at least a bajillion

Any minute now... Aaaaany minute now...

I'm not denying that AI is a bubble, but this is one of the (many) big reasons that the huge wealth disparity we've built up is so fucking dangerous: the people who make the market move can afford to make it act irrationally for a long, long time. This bubble should have burst in like 2024 at the latest, but LLMs in their current form are vitally important to the march of fascism. I mean, they cast doubt on all media. You can't trust the pictures you see, the videos you watch, not even that the people you're messaging online are people. I like to think many of the people here are better at spotting generated content than the general populace, but it can still be hit-or-miss, and for everyone else, trying to figure out who is a trustworthy news source at this point is just a crapshoot.

So billionaires are gonna fund this bubble as long as they can. They need to get as many people to give up on trying to discern truth as possible. Even with all the other crazy shit threatening to imminently topple our economy, this bubble could have years of life in it yet.

If you can manage the humidity issues you could have servers in one rack supplying heat for the grow-racks

Solar power system batteries fit these I believe. A 7 ft tall rack is a lot of battery power!

Lemon tech 🍋