Renewable energy startup, Span, has partnered with Nvidia to launch XFRA, a distributed data center system that mounts compute nodes on the exterior walls of homes and small businesses. Each box uses Nvidiaโs liquid-cooled RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs and taps unused capacity on local grids. Span claims it can deploy 8,000 units six times faster and at one-fifth the cost of a comparable 100-megawatt centralized facility. Homeowners receive a smart electrical panel, battery backup, and discounted utilities. The company is currently testing the system with homebuilder PulteGroup. The approach targets surging AI inference demand as traditional data centers face multi-year grid delays.
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The black market chip theft ring is gonna be INSANE
Plenty on copper and gold for thieves.
I absolutely love this.
BTW, Pulte Group builds HOMES. This all starts to remind of MIcrosoft, in how features are added that the actual users have no benefit from, and which will make them for example pay more for the electricity they use every day. Who benefits? The usual Epst... class of predators, anyone?
..and where are they right now?
Probably something to do with palenter & surveillance
How do I get one?
Hmm what about the fire hazard which can be created by them and your home could burn down into ashes
Data centers that create bots that create a fake internet reality that affects us all in real life
Feels like the homeowners will now pay high electricity bill after this installation
I'm happy to have this on my property. Just don't sue me when some of the parts go missing and I come to work with a top of the line 100k AI workstation pc
leaving a data center worth thousands of dollars outside my house i don't think that's a good idea.
What happens when you lose power and the battery that could be powering your home in a time of need is instead, now powering an AI data center? ๐
Thought having having your catalytic converter stolen off of your car was annoying? Wait till they find out how much RTX PRO 6000s go for... LOL
IRL Lootboxes
Ill take one if i get to use it!
No home owner would even consider this unless it pays for the entire household electricity, water, and internet.
Must be paying for my power bill..... Time to get anEV!
The future is distributed
What doesn't make any sense at all is these companies keep building in hot climates They could install these in cold climate hotels, apartment complexes, hospitals, office buildings, etc, and just blow cold winter air across and send the exhaust into living and work spaces and turn down the HVAC heater