How I AI · Monday, July 13, 2026
Alex Finn describes his current local AI hardware, which includes three Mac Studios (512GB), a DGX Spark, and a custom-built computer featuring an RTX 5090. He emphasizes that running AI models locally on his own hardware allows for unlimited, 24/7 intelligence processing, which would be prohibitively expensive with cloud-based models.
“I have three Mac Studio 512 gigabytes. We got a DGX Spark as well as a computer I just built an RTX 5090. Basically at all times of the day, each one of these computers is just burning tokens.”
“The point is in pure ROI. The point is the use cases it unlocks.”
“You now have because you have AI models running locally, the ability to run unlimited intelligence around the clock 24/7.”