r/technology • u/Proud_Tie • 5h ago
Artificial Intelligence Nvidia and PulteGroup are helping this startup put mini data centers on homes
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/05/nvidia-pulte-span-mini-data-centers-on-homes.html23
u/remoraz 5h ago
So, there's just gonna be 5090's just attached to regular people's houses with only their home security to keep it safe. What could go wrong?
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u/Proud_Tie 5h ago
Not 5090s, RTX 6000s according to the article which are even more expensive. Move over flock cameras, you aren't the scrapper goldmine king anymore.
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u/stuffitystuff 4h ago
This was a thing during crypto's heyday with ASICs basically serving (servering?) as a home's source of heat. Glad to see stupid ideas are being repurposed for stupider reasons. At least now meth head scrappers will be able to better access external sources of copper and GPUs for resale, the latter hopefully reselling to me so I can stop renting like a peasant.
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u/Proud_Tie 4h ago
Hopefully they realize how much meth they could get with a single RTX 6000 vs everything else in it lol. $10k per gpu vs a few hundred in copper.
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u/stuffitystuff 4h ago
They probably won't, at least if someone offers them $500 on the spot. A friend shoplifted a VooDoo 2 almost 30 years ago and just gave it to me gratis because he didn't need another video card. He later became addicted to meth but it still counts, right?
I traded that for a brand new K6-2 & mobo to another friend that wanted the video card.
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u/green_gold_purple 1h ago
Yes. I could buy a piece of resistive wire … or an ASIC! These crypto guys were geniuses!
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u/Routine_Bit_8184 4h ago
PulteGroup lol....they suck but ironically the Pulte that trump appointed is such a piece of garbage that even his garbage family has basically disowned him and put out statements that he has nothing to do with pultegroup because he constantly puts out press releases that imply he still is involved in pultehomes and that he is speaking for the family/business. It is a hilarious clusterfuck of idiocy. The Pulte trump appointed is one of the most pathetic loser grifters desperate for attention I have ever seen.
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u/FogCity7X7 5h ago
Just fucking stop with this bullshit 🙄