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> Even if AI dies off, I imagine there are tons of uses for those same farms

Are there tons of uses for 2023 crypto farm hardware?

A trillion dollars of GPUs in various stages of obsolescence and/or shagged-outness in data centres might be useful to the right people but it's a depreciating asset.

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Everything in tech is a depreciating asset. If you're talking about GPUs used for mining crypto, yeah - most people run them well below max load, keep temps stable, and pay close attention to their crypto farm. Buying a used crypto farm GPU is great.

If you're talking about purpose-built ASICs, probably still yes? It's not like it's performing some incredibly unique action when farming for crypto.

The secondhand electronics market is fairly strong.

Any good guides for buying on this secondhand market? I'd love to pick up some older decommissioned hardware but it's hard to find and harder to trust

I'm not in the market myself; a number of friends buy them on eBay, but I don't know how to differentiate between good and bunk. I would assume that if they're selling 50 of them, though, that it's a good guess.

Still, I think it's always something of a gamble. Maybe look for reputable dealers on there.

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