Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?
THE SO WHAT
Sunrun’s "distributed AI compute" pilot — paying homeowners to host nodes — is cloud economics bleeding into the grid edge. If you run heavy AI workloads, start modeling scenarios where part of your inference runs on highly distributed, intermittently available capacity instead of centralized DCs.
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