Homegrown Hyperscale: The Rise of Residential Data Centers Data centers, typically massive facilities built on the outskirts of cities or in rural areas, are the norm for high performance computing.
However, a new trend is emerging that challenges this conventional wisdom: placing AI compute units in homes.
Sunrun, a solar and home energy storage company, has launched a pilot program to place numerous compute nodes in homes equipped with their solar and battery systems, paying customers for the privilege.