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Building an AI server on a budget
A detailed walkthrough of how I built my own AI server from scratch, with a budget of $1.3K.
I'm treating my home server as a microcosm of a data center, implementing monitoring and logging systems, configuring backups, managing power and temperature—all things we take for granted with the cloud, but I find interesting. None of my runs have hit the ceiling of scale yet, but I can see myself adopting a hybrid approach in the future: using my server for local development with miniaturized workloads and the cloud when I need to scale-up. I recently bought a Gigabyte Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 12GB Graphics Card to build a custom AI server I can use to run deep learning workloads with my MacBook Pro as the terminal.
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