Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?
Sunrun is launching a pilot program to install AI compute nodes in customers' homes, utilizing existing solar and battery storage infrastructure. The company aims to sell this distributed computing power to enterprise AI firms as an alternative to traditional, centralized data centers.
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.
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