Honey, I shrunk the hyperscaler

The plan aims to speed up AI compute deployment while compensating residents.

SPAN's XFRA node would sit alongside houses with a wall-mounted smart panel and backup battery nearby.

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Data centers may be coming to your neighborhood as side installations associated with new homes—and in exchange would offer subsidized electricity and Internet access along with backup batteries to homeowners. The company behind the plan has already begun pilot testing in preparation for a 100-home trial run this year.

The “distributed data center solution” announced by the San Francisco startup SPAN would deploy thousands of XFRA nodes that contain liquid-cooled Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs operating with minimal noise, according to a press release.…