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Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2026
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You really don’t want it. At least most of it. I get discarded stuff from work quite frequently and 95% of it is way too loud, way too hot, and uses a boat-load of power. And I don’t mean like sitting next to a running house fan loud. I mean sitting next to a jet engine loud. Like if you are in a data center behind this equipment, you struggle to have a conversation with a guy a foot from you.
But if you got a nice cool basement and you never have to pay for power, you can get lots of good stuff relatively cheap.
I think we are okay making that mistake ourselves.
I mean that’s true. I probably would too. Well for about a week and then my wife would tell me to get rid of it.
You get a week? I had to get rid of it same day 😔
This is how you end up with a homelab, it just takes one managed switch or a blade server amd now youre on ebay everyday looking for deals and struggling to pay electric bills.
True dat.
Just give me RAM and SSDs.
I guess those will also be mostly proprietary and unusable :-(
Nah, the RAM will be ECC, but AMD motherboards often will take that. SSDs will be m2 or SAS, you may have to find yourself a PCIE card to hook up those, but it shouldn't be impossible.
NVME slots are pretty ubiquitous on mobos now
Exactly!
Or Dell Precision Workstations. The SSDs would likely be SAS but maybe U2 or E1.S. Those would be harder to use but not impossible. I saw a QNAP that takes E1.S just yesterday. Of course the 5 bay without drives was $1k.
Nah that surprisingly is some of the most useful stuff. I have a machine upstairs with 512gb of ECC DDR4 from just that sorta situation.
If it exists, then there is an adapter.