๐จBREAKING: NVIDIA WILL NOW PAY YOU OVER $22,000 A YEAR TO HOST A MINI AI DATA CENTER IN YOUR HOME.
Here's how it works:
A startup called Span (with NVIDIA GPUs + homebuilder Pulte) just launched a program that installs a "node" outside your house, the size of an AC unit.
What's inside one box:
โ 16x NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs
โ 4x AMD EPYC server CPUs
โ 3TB of memory
โ a 15kWh whole-home backup battery
That's $200k+ of hardware sitting next to your air conditioner. You own none of it.
The deal for homeowners:
โ Free install (new builds first)
โ Span pays your electricity AND internet bills
โ You pay them one flat fee (~$150/mo)
โ Net savings can hit thousands a year
It runs on the "stranded power" your home never uses. The average 200-amp house wastes ~40% of its capacity. They're turning that into compute.
The vision is wild: Span says 8,000 of these nodes = a 100MW data center, but 5x cheaper and 6x faster to deploy. No new power plants. No 4-7 year grid delays.
AI demand is breaking the grid. Their fix? Skip the mega data center. Build it across thousands of suburban garages instead.
100-home pilot drops Fall 2026. Full rollout 2027.
The AI buildout just moved into your backyard.
SpaceX has almost finished writing V1.0 of an in-house AI training stack in C that exact-maps to 220k GB300s with 800G NICs, making heavy use of pipeline parallelism and getting as close to bare metal as possible.
The potential speed improvement vs JAX for large training runs is over an order of magnitude.