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Power and racking are difficult and expensive?

• kennywinker 6mo ago
  How difficult? Is running 1000 minis worth $1,000,000/month of effort? I feel like it is.
  • runako 6mo ago
    There are many people who do not have ready access to a million dollars to purchase said Mac minis, much less the operating capital to rack & operate them. Very smart play to build a platform, get scale, and prove out the software. Then either add a small network fee (this could be on money movement on/off platform), add a higher tier of service for money, and/or just use the proof points to go get access to capital and become an operator in your own pool.
    • nxpnsv 6mo ago
      If those numbers are true, they could tart with one Mac and can double every few months. But, I guess there are also many people who do not have ready access to whatever a Mac mini costs either...
      • runako 6mo ago
        You can run the simulation out, but if the idea works, you can get to scaled revenue much faster than organic growth keeping 100% of the margin. This is essentially the same reason even the best money managers take outside money to start, even if they eventually kick out the investors.
  • ffsm8 6mo ago
    And at that scale (1k) it ain't even that hard, a single room could be enough to hazardly drop them on shelves with a big fan to draw out the heat