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...
Key points
- 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’s building a ‘nationwide compute network’ that will run AI from small compute nodes in customers’ homes.
- Sunrun’s building a ‘nationwide compute network’ that will run AI from small compute nodes in customers’ homes.
What happened
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’s building a ‘nationwide compute network’ that will run AI from small compute nodes in customers’ homes. Sunrun’s building a ‘nationwide compute network’ that will run AI from small compute nodes in customers’ homes. Rather than consolidating computing power into one large data center, Sunrun’s program would spread it out in smaller compute units dotted all over the country. Sunrun’s 1.1 million customers can sign up for the pilot program waitlist if they’re open to hosting a compute node.