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.
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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! :)
The way things are going, they will turn old data centers into "detainment facilities".
grow food with it.
Ohh, right. I didn't read the OP very well and assumed they'd be growing weed. I thought it was rather small for that but growing salads does make more sense.
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.
Hell, I was decent at spotting AI gen content 1-2 years ago, but nowadays I get constantly fooled if I am just casually browsing. (Except electronics BS ai-gen tutorial websites that are generated for nearly every subset and are always the same garbage look and pop ups)
AI is dangerous. Curious that it is being pushed so hard by the Epstein class billionaires right when they are being exposed.
If I had read a dystopian sci fi novel in the 60s about the future it would have described precisely the society we are living in.
In fact they did. Many times.
Could just grow some weed with them too!
and some of the fun fungi!
I mean, it's right in the name!
I just wished they tasted like fun instead of poop
Lemon tech 🍋
When we were young dumb druggies in the 90s everyone "knew" that citric acid destroys psilocybin, so if you had a bad trip you would take some vitamin C.
They really said that.
Interesting, thanks! i was always more of an LSD guy though anyways. More for the fact that it was so much easier to get in my area in the 90s, rather than just the poop taste lol
Funny, it's the opposite around here!
well, yeah, because the dude that was making 90% of the country’s supply was busted back then. we were shielded by that a little by the nice organic chem students at kent state that made it to help pay their tuition
How do you know how poop tastes?
one time i held my cat. later i ate some chocolate. still later i saw dripped chocolate on my shirt and tasted it. twasn’t chocolate.
I regret asking.
lol sorry, i have a policy of complete transparency in all things.
Well, until her daddy takes the t-bird away, anyway.
Not without an air filter
i've grown loads of weed with zero air filters
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.
Solar power system batteries fit these I believe. A 7 ft tall rack is a lot of battery power!
I am legitimately looking at just getting a fucking server rack for my next PC build because these GPU sizes are out of hand
A 4u chassis still barely fits a GPU.
At a certain point just building a wood enclosure around a test bench seems attractive.
Yeahhhh salad...riiiiiiight...
Devils lettuce is still lettuce.
This guy knows
I really need to find out where the local data center sells their decommissioned hardware.
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.
If you can manage the humidity issues you could have servers in one rack supplying heat for the grow-racks
In my experience, the lights (even LEDs) generate enough heat that you rather want cooling, if anything
I just want like a 4tb drive or three for not crazy money 😭
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
Using decomissioned corporate hardware used to steal from everyone is so cyberpunk it hurts.
Not having LLMs at all would be solarpunk.
They'll kill the planet before they let this bubble burst. What are the polymarket odds on what takes us out first? AI or climate change?
They do have one on the rapture, but beyond that nothing interesting on end of the world scenarios.
Polymarket bets on things that prevent Polymarket from paying out are literal virtue signalling.
server rack wardrobe here i come-
This is just what i need. I was thinking of using an old fridge.
Last year I made a box out styrofoam and grew chili's in there. They became so spicy that we could barely eat them. The grow box was ugly and used a lot of space and I want to rebuild it in a way that looks better.
You're gonna want airflow, those grow lights generate plenty of heat. Fortunately, there is no shortage of airflow solutions for 19" racks. Also having a dedicated solution bin per rack is complete overkill, either keep the solution bin outside of the rack to service multiple racks or just do deep water culture (It's roma lettuce, it will not give a fuck).
imagine how many minecraft servers you can run in that
like at least a bajillion
Ok but for real, where could someone acquire a random empty server rack? I'd love to have one just as room decor
I've found a bunch by accident when browsing online auctions, second hand etc websites