The depreciation curve for accelerator hardware is volatile.
A two-year-old H100 SXM5 trades for $14,000-$20,000 on the secondary market. New, the same card listed above $30,000. Most organisations decommissioning GPU clusters have no structured process for capturing what's left.
The hyperscalers run internal remarketing programmes.
Everyone else navigates a secondary market that's become a mess of opportunists chasing AI workload margins.
Brokers selling through brokers selling through brokers. Opaque. And rarely in the seller's favour.
That market opacity, the gap between what hardware is worth and what most organisations actually recover, is where this company has operated for sixteen years.
7,000+ client engagements. Shipments to 91 countries. Deliveries across six continents. Deep experience from the top to the bottom of the stack.
And now they're applying it to GPUs.
Who are they?
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What Is Inteleca?
Inteleca is a privately-held IT lifecycle services provider headquartered in Smyrna, Georgia. Founded in 2009 as a stocking brokerage specialising in optical and core networking hardware, the company now operates two sides of the same trade:
IT Asset Disposition: On-site decommissioning, certified data erasure (Blancco, NIST 800-88), remarketing, and recycling. R2v3 certified. Serial-level chain-of-custody documentation.
Hardware remarketing and resale: New, refurbished, and pre-owned data centre equipment sold through a buyer network spanning 91 countries. Lifetime warranty on end-user hardware.
The same team handles both. Decommission, wipe, price against live demand, and sell to the buyer willing to pay the most.
What Problem Does Inteleca Solve?
GPU refresh cycles are accelerating as new architectures ship, but most mid-market organisations have no structured process for handling the outgoing hardware.
Three things go wrong:
Value leakage. Without direct buyer relationships, organisations leave significant capital on the table. Capital that could offset next-generation deployments. The secondary market for accelerator hardware is layered with intermediaries, each taking a margin, none transparent about what the end-buyer is actually paying.
Security exposure. Accelerators process model weights, proprietary datasets, and regulated data. An improperly wiped GPU that held training data can expose proprietary model architectures and fine-tuning approaches long after the hardware leaves the rack. The breach risk outlasts the hardware's operational life.
Compliance gaps. NIST 800-88, NERC CIP, and similar frameworks require auditable disposal chains with serial-level documentation. Failure to produce that at audit means regulatory action, contract breach, or both. Most mid-market organisations can't produce it internally.
GPUs aren't laptops. The higher the value per unit, the more each failure costs.
How Does Inteleca Solve These Problems?
Inteleca handles disposal and resale through a single team under a single chain of custody.
Security. Compliance. Value recovery.
All occurring in one process rather than being split across vendors.
Two engagements illustrate the model:
A biotech cloud migration where Inteleca recovered $1.2M from decommissioned on-premise infrastructure, $200K above initial estimates, offsetting the client's first year of GPU cloud spend.
A 10,000-device enterprise decommission across 12 floors in five business days: 83% remarketed, 17% securely destroyed, zero downtime.*
Those claimed recovery rates come from having a buyer network with active demand on the other side. Without that demand signal, decommissioned hardware gets bulk-priced and moved.
With it, each asset gets routed to the channel where it commands the highest return.
That network is already handling current-generation accelerator hardware.
H100 and H200 GPUs (individual units, HGX baseboards, and full server configurations) are moving through Inteleca's buyer network alongside A100 8-GPU servers from ASUS, Supermicro, and Dell, multi-GPU systems with A6000 and A40 accelerators, and Mellanox InfiniBand switches in volume. Current-gen NVIDIA silicon, multiple OEMs, networking fabric, server-level and component-level transactions.*
The full stack, not just the GPUs.
*Data sourced from Inteleca directly
Who Runs Inteleca?
Paul Hogg (CEO & Founder) - Georgia Tech (BS Industrial Engineering, MBA). Pre-owned enterprise hardware since the early 2000s. Grew the customer base at Apto Solutions by over 1,000% and tripled Cisco hardware revenues before founding Inteleca in 2009. Built the HPC division from scratch.
Matt Edwards (COO) - Georgia Tech. Ten years at Apto Solutions, the same company Hogg came from, rising from product sales to Director of Client Services. At Inteleca since 2015, COO since 2017. Led the R2v3 and triple ISO certification processes.
Ben Maroney (VP of Sales & Business Development) - 12 years as Cisco Product Manager at Impulse Technology. Former president of the UNEDA Board of Directors, the 300-member trade alliance for the secondary network equipment market. Six years on the board total.
Mark Vaughan (VP of ITAD & Client Relations) - Joined November 2023. 17 years at U.S. Micro / Arrow Value Recovery, where he built the field services operation: 30+ on-site technicians, 50,000+ assets retrieved annually. Largest programme: integrating two major US financial institutions across 4,500 branches, 100,000+ assets. At Arrow, increased plant production 280% in six months.
Randy Musselwhite (Field Services Manager) - Joined October 2023. 20+ years in ITAD field operations across U.S. Micro, Arrow, and Rand Technology. Managed east coast field services and a team of 20+ remote technicians at Arrow. Scheduling, logistics, and national IT refresh project execution.
What Sets Inteleca Apart?
No subcontractors. Inteleca's team deploys to the client site and runs every step from rack pull to resale.
Direct buyer relationships, not broker chains. 1,897 InfiniBand switches sold in twelve months*. Established demand from end-users buying in volume.
R2v3 plus triple ISO. R2v3 achieved January 2025. ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001 active since March 2023.
Vendor-neutral. No OEM partnerships creating conflicts. Works across Dell, HPE, Cisco, Lenovo, ASUS, Supermicro, and others on both disposition and procurement.
*Data sourced from Inteleca directly
Recent Moves
Febuary 26: Second hyperscaler customer added.
November 25: First hyperscaler customer added.
November 2025: Exhibition at SuperComputing 25, Booth #6125. First visible move into GPU lifecycle services.
October 25: Third neocloud customer added
Sept 25: Second neocloud customer added.
May 25: First neocloud customer added.
January 2025: R2v3 certification achieved via independent SERI audit.
June 2024: Direct enterprise relationships expanded across HPC hardware.
November 2023: Vaughan hired as VP of ITAD & Client Relations.
October 2023: Randy Musselwhite hired. Field services team built.
March 2023: Triple ISO certification completed.
What's Next?
Inteleca is expanding on three fronts.
The company is hiring 4-5 roles over the next two quarters. Experienced HPC sales reps, engineering and testing support, and professional services staff. The engineering team is already growing, with a second wave of final interviews underway.
On the physical side, the team is evaluating the adjacent facility for expansion, roughly 150-160% more processing space.
Capacity needed to handle the GPU and high-density compute hardware coming through the pipeline.
The third vector is less visible. The hires are designed to distribute the operational load Hogg has carried as the transaction volume scales.
So, does the model hold?
The $1.2M biotech recovery. The 83% remarketing rate. $20.4M in InfiniBand switch sales. These numbers suggest this isn't a traditional ITAD provider bolting a GPU story onto a press release.
The buyer network is real.
The questions now are scale and maturity.
Certification gaps exist - e-Stewards, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 are not confirmed. For organisations requiring those, the gaps matter. Equally, Inteleca is not in the 2024 Gartner Market Guide for ITAD. It operates from a single Georgia facility, though that's about to change. Iron Mountain's ITAD business generated $483.6M in 2024. SK TES runs 40+ facilities globally.
Different weight classes.
Inteleca sits on the other side of that trade-off.
Smaller footprint. Higher recovery. Direct relationships instead of processing volume.
Whether that model scales to meet the GPU refresh wave now building across the mid-market is the bet the company is making, and the question the next twelve months will answer.