I previously wrote an article questioning a wool-pulling project that used decentralized computing as a pretext to operate over 500,000 machines, suspecting that the project party is freeloading the computing power to do side AI applications, POW mining, and provide cloud services to data centers.
I have no evidence, I can only guess randomly that 500,000 machines could really fleece the global wool-pulling people...
But to be honest, I think the idea of using idle GPU computing power provided by global users, aggregated together for centralized use, is really awesome.
In reality, @AethirCloud is doing this. The tariff war initiated by Trump has caused a direct cliff collapse in China and the US's import and export trade; many of my friends in foreign trade are directly on holiday.
⭐ But tariffs can't stop decentralized computing power; they can't tax the computing power provided by Chinese GPUs, right? This time, Trump taught the crypto world a lesson: your so-called decentralization, under my centralized stick of sanctions, can still truly profit from geopolitical arbitrage!
🚀Aethir has built a global GPU cloud covering over 420,000 high-performance GPUs and has deployed more than 60,000 Edge devices. The key point is: these devices are not concentrated in a data center of a certain country, but are distributed among global community nodes.
Tariffs can hit server importers and block the supply chains of traditional cloud vendors, but they can't suppress architectures like Aethir.
Previously, when AWS's cloud servers went down, many major exchanges in the crypto world directly collapsed. Speaking of which, if Trump sanctions the crypto world and directly pulls the internet cable from Chinese KYC accounts, then we're all doomed.
Imagine this: your AI model is not hosted on 'bottleneck' platforms like AWS or Google Cloud, but runs on tens of thousands of GPUs distributed among players around the world. Whether it's Nvidia H100, H200, or the future GB200, this platform can form a redundant and flexible computing power network.
🎡The key point is that this is not just a model of 'making money with resources', but is building a brand new AI infrastructure layer that is resistant to censorship and geopolitical risks.
To put it bluntly, Aethir is a Web3 version of AWS + Nvidia joint venture, but it's not the centralized kind.
We wool-pulling people might just want to fleece some wool and earn some points, but behind this system, it is actually confronting the old models of the traditional world head-on.
✅Now, the question arises:
Should we, the wool-pulling people, become the 'GPU rent collectors' in this new computing power revolution?
After all, in this day and age, you never know what your GPU at home is being 'trained on' on the other side of the earth...
What if it's a transformer? Wow, thinking about Aethir is indeed a bit awesome.
Hahaha