To run a local LLM you need the device it currently runs on and electricity. There are actually quite a lot of ways to generate electricity, but to name one, a diesel generator that can run on vegetable oil.
What you're really asking is, what could cause a modern Library of Alexandria incident? But the fact is we keep the only copy of too many things on the servers of the major cloud providers. Which are then intended to have their own internal redundancy, but that doesn't protect you against a targeted attack or a systemic failure when all the copies are under the same roof and you lose every redundant copy at once from a single mistake replicated in a monoculture.
What you're really asking is, what could cause a modern Library of Alexandria incident? But the fact is we keep the only copy of too many things on the servers of the major cloud providers. Which are then intended to have their own internal redundancy, but that doesn't protect you against a targeted attack or a systemic failure when all the copies are under the same roof and you lose every redundant copy at once from a single mistake replicated in a monoculture.