I have been buying older servers by the truckloads. Older being a year or so. It will be enough to host whatever outside AI that we need for the coming 15-20 years. And the all were great deals, will have them paid for within a month per server. I have my own cage full with empty racks bought from a bankrupt company in AMS.

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tasuki a day ago | parent | next [-]

> enough to host whatever outside AI that we need for the coming 15-20 years.

Not sure who "we" is, but I highly doubt you'll use those servers for 15-20 years.

	▲	anonzzzies 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		We run production on servers 15 years old for our company/clients. Servers now are far faster and the software barely changes performance characteristic wise. We run Java, Perl & PHP ERP/departmental type projects; nothing that gets added makes anything slower and I don't see that happening either. Unless clients will want vastly different things, which, you know, they won't as they are big sluggish companies.

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CaptainJack a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Curious about the specs of servers that you are buying. We are looking for some non-GPU HPC servers, but there's always the question of whether second-hand servers will be good-enough/power-efficient for our use case.