There are already ways to get around this. For example, renting compute from people who aren't in datacenters. Which is already a thing: https://vast.ai. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

By "SETI" I assume you mean the SETI@Home distributed computing project. There's a two-way market where you can rent out your GPU here: https://vast.ai/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

- https://vast.ai/ (linked by gchadwick above). - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

Have you considered running on a cloud machine instead? You can rent machines on https://vast.ai/ for under $1 an hour that should work for small/medium models (I've mostly been playing with stable diffusion so I don't know what you'd need for an LLM off hand). Good GPUs and Apple hardware is pricey. Get a bit of automation setup with some cloud storage (e.g backblaze B2) and you can have a machine ready to run... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

I have heard vast.ai is cheap but I haven't tried it out. https://websiteinvesting.com/reviews/vast-ai-review/. Source: 7 months ago

As mentioned, I am sure that stockdata.org is not legit. Source: over 2 years ago

So then I stumbled upon stockdata.org which advertises commercial use plans as low as $9/month. My guess is it's so cheap because their data is relatively limited? (It doesn't even show bid/ask price, for example.) Then I was reading another company's website, Xignite specifically, which goes to great lengths to explain that not only do you need to pay them, the distributor, but you also need to pay the exchanges,... Source: over 2 years ago