Ask HN: Best way to buy second hand compute (in a future AI crash)
TL;DR
So, in a land before kids and mortgages I had a homelab, and want to start again. I also think that give it a few months and the AI bud out bubble will burst and a couple of data r free worth of GPUs might come available Buying off eBay sounds crazy so what’s the right way to find compute from sell offs, refreshed estates and so on? ycombinator. com/item?
Nauti's Take
For small teams, this is a procurement question before it is a model question. If you are considering used GPUs, verify sustained load behavior, VRAM health, cooling, power draw, and driver support first, or the seemingly cheap local AI stack can end up costing more to run than cloud credits.
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