"The grid and your home are the bottleneck": compute buyer goes bullish on ARM chips
TheZachMueller · x · 2026-10-26
zekramu on X: once you start buying a considerable amount of compute, you realize the grid and your actual home are the bottleneck. That's why he's "super bullish" on ARM chips, even though they are on paper far behind.
A firsthand observation from the self-hosting compute crowd: residential power and cooling, not the GPU itself, often limit local AI deployments — giving low-power ARM setups unique value.
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