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Nvidias New Mini Datacenter Pays You Every Month

That terms of agreement document will be something. So many questions.

Insurance
Structure
Tampering
Internet Privacy/Usage
Town power capacity
Buy/Sell of home/business
Water usage (I assume a closed loop system but I don't recall video specifically saying)
Access to property to admin device
Taxable income

I'd maybe be interested after a full year of it deployed to hear of horror stories.
 
SunnyD said:
Why do all their renderings have bubbles in their cooling lines?

Also, I think thieves are going to love those things...
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Hey why should thieves take the trouble to steal your Prius catalytic converter and maybe make a few hundred dollars when some fence will give them $100K a pop, And China will be a big customer, maybe even organizing the thieves.

And the guys who hijack trucks will have a lucrative new target.

And sooner or later the Mafia will move in. They will sell you "protection" for say half your savings. "Nice NVidia setup you have here. Shame if someone cut the cooling lines."
 
If they figure out everything Sound Guy listed off, I get paid/some expenses covered AND from the Node I get a very decent chunk of processing power, you know, for gaming, then they got a deal.
 
So they can't build data centers because people are pissed off at their electricity costs continuously increasing in price and protesting, so their novel approach is to just let the people do it for them via some kind of folding at home like structure that pays some kind of money to avoid the backlash. I really hope no one is stupid enough to participate in this dumbass program. The only thing this will do is increase the electricity costs of the people, and Nvidia will never increase their payments only lower it, if by some miracle the costs initially work out to give you some kind of small profit, that will probably disappear within a year as they average cost their payments down to those who live where the power is the cheapest. You can almost predict the comments, Nvidia paid me $50 but it cost me $250 in power costs because of course your AC running isn't covered to keep you room at a reasonable temperature so your PC doesn't overheat.
 
There have been a few companies that have done something similar before. With one you got free (or offset) house heating from some installed GPU used for cloud renders IIRC.

Also the video author in the OP I guess doesn't care for subtitle accuracy since their burned-in subs have a clear speech-to-text mistake in the first 20s. A few more amusing ones: transcribes one line as 'AI dead centers' (data) and another as 'built by dull' (Dell).
 
That_Sound_Guy said:
Water usage (I assume a closed loop system but I don't recall video specifically saying)
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I extremelly doubt there would be some evaporating tower involved, that is of course regular termo pomp-close loop....

LurkerLito said:
I really hope no one is stupid enough to participate in this dumbass program. The only thing this will do is increase the electricity costs of the people, and Nvidia will never increase their payments only lower it
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I do not imagine Nvidia will be in charge of those here, it is an other company trying to do this.

The deal is structured in a low risk for the home owner, Span now pay your electricity and internet bill, you pay them $150 a month in exchange, the more electricity rise the "better" the deal become for the homeowner.
 
LukeTbk said:
The deal is structured in a low risk for the home owner, Span now pay your electricity and internet bill, you pay them $150 a month in exchange, the more electricity rise the "better" the deal become for the homeowner.
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There must be a lot of fine print involved with the "free" electricity bill otherwise the day after I sign the contract I would build a small bitcoin render farm, triple my electricity bill, and ask Span to pay for it.
 
There is a lot of energy they can sip from. Tons of houses out there that they can sip a little here and a little there. I think the GPU's need to be inside and the cooler outside for security concerns. It would take up a spare bedroom and run a small hepa filter in there for dust and internet connection. I personally would have a separate internet connection for my house and a different dedicated for the GPU cluster.
 
DukenukemX said:
I'll just buy one of their old Tesla V100's for $100 and have my own LLM. Once I know what to do with an LLM.


View: https://youtu.be/7DAPd5MGodY?si=nKGcx_Ck9xB08fVh
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You can run them on many things. The context window is going to be very much questionable, as will the number of tokens/s and your accuracy.


Anyway GamerNexus did an article on this shit, and frankly it can go fuck itself. They're going to be insanely loud, and the terms and conditions are sketchy at best.
 
Wouldn't surprise me if they do something shitty like have a contract that pays you a contractual energy rate that is fixed. Then if (when) power costs go up, suddenly you aren't making money anymore and they say "Oops too bad for you, you are contractually bound to pay for the energy! No you can't get rid of the datacenter, there's still 4 years left on our lease!" Given how greedy and grabby the AI companies are, I wouldn't trust this at all without having a lawyer go over it with a fine toothed comb.
 
mullet said:
I think the GPU's need to be inside and the cooler outside for security concerns. It would take up a spare bedroom and run a small hepa filter in there for dust and internet connection. I personally would have a separate internet connection for my house and a different dedicated for the GPU cluster.
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Did I miss something? I thought that the GPUs were in that box hanging off the side of your house.
 
StoleMyOwnCar said:
You can run them on many things. The context window is going to be very much questionable, as will the number of tokens/s and your accuracy.


Anyway GamerNexus did an article on this shit, and frankly it can go fuck itself.
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Who is the it here?
StoleMyOwnCar said:
They're going to be insanely loud, and the terms and conditions are sketchy at best.
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But aren[t these boxes famless?
 
rinaldo00 said:
There must be a lot of fine print involved with the "free" electricity bill otherwise the day after I sign the contract I would build a small bitcoin render farm, triple my electricity bill, and ask Span to pay for it.
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yes, same for the internet usage, as they use extra I imagine if they do not get to use X extras they stop or something.
 
philb2 said:
Did I miss something? I thought that the GPUs were in that box hanging off the side of your house.
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They are, but I said "I think" my idea is to split it up and have the GPU inside and the cooler/fan outside.
 
kac77 said:
They will pay you no where near the amount of destruction AI has caused. In fact the product is pretty damn insulting.

This would be like if I shot you in the leg and then sold you a hospital visit.
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Please expand on your statements. Would love stats or documentation if you have those.
 
sc5mu93 said:
wait, i thought they wanted to put them in space..? now my yard? wut?
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Oh they do. Maybe seven years or so ago, the entire data center in space got explained to me. What people miss is the "storage space" that you have when moving data between a satellite and Earth.
 
This is only going in new home builds IIRC from when I posted about this in Genmay/Soapbox/something - terms would be part of your contract and you can just walk away (or try to negotiate terms of the contract I suppose) if you don't like the terms
 
"wants it to disappear into the background of your yard"
yea, about as well as my heat pump does.
 
StoleMyOwnCar said:
You can run them on many things. The context window is going to be very much questionable, as will the number of tokens/s and your accuracy.
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Like what? I spent all day Sunday trying to get my sunroof working on my new to me 02 Audi A4 because Gemini kept telling me that I can calibrate my sunroof by holding down the switch for 30 seconds. I had no other source of information to go on so of course I took apart the sunroof motor thinking there was a bad component or it needed grease. Nope, Gemini was wrong. Turns out you have to manually move the sunroof to closed and then cycle the motor open and closed while removed from the roof until it's in the closed position, then install it. It's a stepping motor so that makes sense. Of course, Gemini is going by information for an Audi A4 B7, where I have a B6. This is supposed to be the good AI.

The only good thing about AI is making art and I really don't need a dedicated machine for that. My local GPU is more than capable of doing it.

View: https://youtu.be/picwnaVU8CU?t=1035
 
StoleMyOwnCar said:
There's no way in hell it can be fanless,
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it is fanless in the compute unit, but fan on the thermopump, like regular watercooled loop and by silent it must be high end home conditionner setup, good compressor-good low-rpm very large fans.
 
DukenukemX said:
The only good thing about AI is making art and I really don't need a dedicated machine for that. My local GPU is more than capable of doing it.
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you really underestimate how good it is at programming, using it as a google replacement is a bit hard, it cannot feedback accuracy by itself (and quite dependant about the data about that subject, if you go with really niche affair where you cannot find it yourself.... why would gemini be that much better than you at it...)

When it program, it interact with the compiler feedback and then look at the actual result by running the program and correct itself, with some ground truth by time to time. Same goes if you take pictures or feed the electric plans of what you are working on.. so it does not have to rely on internet source quality.
 
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LukeTbk said:
you really underestimate how good it is at programming,
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Probably better than me, but you wouldn't want me programming for you using AI. At least, you wouldn't want to pay an inexperienced programmer using AI. Last time I did any programming was in college with C++.

There's enough open source projects banning vibe coding that I feel it isn't there yet.
 
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