Reuse, materials recovery and the circular economy for end-of-life IT hardware: what gets recovered, what gets destroyed, and the economics that decide. Including critical-minerals and rare-earth recovery from retired electronics.

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The collateral is in a rack

By Viktor Yoshimura – 23th October 2026 Billions are lent against GPUs on the assumption

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The magnets in the machine

By Viktor Yoshimura – 8th of October 2026 Recovering rare earths from hard drives mostly

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