GPUs in the Wine Cellar: Why Techies Are Hoarding AI Compute in Their Homes

The basement of Gary Flake’s contemporary home in a quiet neighborhood in Bellevue, Wash., is furnished with everything you’d expect in a multipurpose man cave. There’s a cozy-looking couch situated between a large screen and a digital projector, a Peloton treadmill and a rowing machine. The real showpiece of the space, however, is a custom computer that resembles an oversized erector set, one with seven large Nvidia graphics processing units dangling from its frame. Flake, a former Microsoft...