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I am fairly sure remote working and hybrid working are here to stay. Which means the commercial real estate market is going to shift with more and more “co-working” spaces being created.

One thing I wonder is if they will simply turn one office room into a co-low space - where it’s easier to drive to, it’s simpler to manage. Because cloud first is a rubbish solution for most people - just have a server with a TB of disk and most companies can live on that happily running away in the corner.

And there might be a growth for companies that have expertise in the basics of racks and HVACs just to run that room for them.

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I'm in the process of finding where to put $100,000 of 4090s for training non-llm models.

It looks like "my garage" is cheaper by far even when I include installing an HVAC system and 3 phase power when I look at yearly costs for a spot with 20kW's of power.

Did you factor in security to avoid the local thug population shopping for some free gpu compute?

A gun and some discretion are pretty cheap

You'll sit in the garage with a gun 24/7?

What self-respecting conservative member of the population doesn't?

You can just train a vision model to detect people, then detect people on a white list. If you're not on the white list you send a head request to the shooter microservice which deals with the rest of the intruders lifecycle.

You can pay fps player on demand service to aim

Always ends up being mechanical turks in the end, doesn't it?

I do not live in California.

Please, please, please remember to install some fire suppression!

I’m sure I’ve heard of this somewhere - where someone is hosting out of a coworking space’s server room - but of course cannot recall where.

It’s not surprising I guess, office buildings often(?) have one or multiple server rooms, backup power or generators, maybe even redundant networking.

Many of the offices will be converted to regular housing. That process has been actually already going at least where I live.

The issue is it's pretty hard to do because we have high standards when it comes to putting humans in living spaces.

This isn't true though for computers. It's trivial (ish...) to turn an office floor into a datacenter. I know because that's what the company I worked for did. It's nice, because our servers are literally an elevator ride away.

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