Bengaluru techie buys old bank server for ₹3.5 lakh, now earns ₹27 lakh/month fine-tuning AI

A 27-year-old software developer from Bengaluru has gone viral for earning ₹27 lakh per month using a decommissioned server rack, bought from a bank hardware auction for ₹3.5 lakh. The equipment included enterprise-grade storage systems, dozens of high-capacity drives and networking hardware that originally cost over ₹1.5 crore. He is now using it for fine-tuning US tech companies' AI models.