No Trusted Marketplace for Secondhand AI Compute
Homelabbers anticipating a wave of used GPUs and servers from a potential AI infrastructure downturn have no trusted, centralized way to find and evaluate secondhand compute beyond risky general marketplaces like eBay.
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