Thanks for your response! Unfortunately, my computer has a maximum of 16 GB of RAM so I think I will have to figure out a different way to do this until I have a proof of concept to show that it would be worthwhile to invest in either cloud computing or a computer with more ram. I did invest in 2 TB of external storage today though. I would appreciate any recommendations on how to download data faster with what I have. I am considering just cutting the historic data for now and working with the other features I've added.

Thanks again!

Edit

We decided to try setting up a node on our extra computer (which we hardly use) with 16gb ram and the external storage I bought. So far we haven't run into any problems so we might succeed at setting up the node. My dad and I just didn't think it would work because we're running it on WSL, but so far it seems to be working.

Yet another edit

We got it working, and have started syncing the blockchain. Thanks for your help! I hope to post an update on the ai soon enough ;)