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title: "Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?"
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description: "Sunrun is launching a pilot program for 'distributed AI compute,' offering to pay customers with solar and battery storage systems to host compute nodes in their homes. The company plans to sell this distributed computing power to enterprise buyers, such as AI firms, marking a novel approach to sourcing AI infrastructure resources."
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# Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?

A solar and home energy storage company is expanding into AI data centers, but not by building one - instead, it's offering to pay its customers to put its compute units in their homes. Sunrun is launching a pilot program for a new "distributed AI compute" program that will "place numerous compute nodes in homes equipped with Sunrun solar and battery storage systems." Customers will be "compensated" for participating in the pilot program.

Sunrun plans to sell the distributed compute power from the nodes to "enterprise compute buyers," like AI companies. It's a new approach to finding resources and space for AI compute infrastructure, as da …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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