San Francisco-based startup SPAN will launch a network of liquid-cooled compute nodes in residential areas. In turn, residents will be offered discounted rates for electricity and internet.
San Francisco-based startup SPAN will launch a network of liquid-cooled compute nodes in residential areas. In turn, residents will be offered discounted rates for electricity and internet.
Gamers Nexus made a great video about this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoYeJwN7Rkw
It’s such a crazy idea. They’re doing this because data center power capacity can’t come online quick enough, data centers need permits, etc.
Residential power grids aren’t designed to handle every house continuously pulling so much electricity.
Even if you don’t consider power… They want to put over $250,000 worth of equipment in a box in people’s front yards. 16 x RTX 6000 Pro GPUs, 4 AMD EPYC processors, 3TB of RAM, a 15kWh battery, and a 3 ton heat pump and liquid cooling powerful enough to keep all of that cool. I wonder how many will go “missing” 👀
I’m sure this will only invite the government and utilities to crack down on this kind of thing. Before long you’ll need a special permit just to have a GPU.