thelocalbuild
Configure your stack
Decision guide
When to buy an AI cluster, and what to actually expect
Written for the person signing the cheque. What tokens per second really means, how fast Claude and ChatGPT actually are, a real GPU-versus-power-versus-throughput matrix, and which of five tiers fits chat, batch APIs or coding agents.
Field notes
500K tokens of context, on four boxes you can fit on a desk
A measured deployment of GLM-5.2 across four DGX Sparks: adaptive speculative depth, full CUDA graph coverage, and the OOM that set the memory envelope.
Guide
On-premise AI server: the enterprise guide
What an on-premise AI server is, how it works, what hardware it needs, and what it takes to run private LLMs on hardware you own.
How-to
How to run open-source LLMs on-premise
Choosing models, sizing GPU memory, picking an inference engine, and serving a private OpenAI-compatible API on hardware you control.
Comparison
On-premise vs cloud AI: cost, security & compliance
Total cost over five years, data security and compliance compared, and the honest answer to when self-hosting actually beats a cloud API.