Why I Run AI in My Garden Shed

tomas@tomastechlab.com (Tomas) — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:21:33 +0200

Let me start with a confession: I have three NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs sitting in an old Dell workstation in my garden shed.

Yes, a garden shed. Not a datacenter. Not a climate-controlled server room with redundant power supplies and backup generators. A garden shed. With possibly the most uninsulated walls you can imagine.

And you know what? It works. Surprisingly well.

The question I get asked most often (or should get asked, people just assume I’m using ChatGPT like everyone else) is why I bother with all this when OpenAI, Anthropic, and the other big players exist. Their models are better. They’re faster. They cost pennies per API call when you look at it on the surface.

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Why I Run AI in My Garden Shed