This US start-up wants to pay you to host a data center on the side of your home — and says it won't disturb…
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A San Francisco start‑up called SPAN has proposed placing small data center nodes outside suburban houses.
The company says it aims to install thousands of liquid‑cooled boxes called XFRA nodes, each containing powerful NvidiaGPUs.
Homeowners would receive subsidized or even free electricity and internet access in exchange for hosting this equipment on their property.
A quiet box with sixteen GPUs
Each XFRA node attaches to the exterior wall of a house like an additional utility box.
The unit holds sixteen Nvidia RTX Pro GPUs and runs with minimal noise, according to the company's announcements.
SPAN claims it can install eight thousand such nodes for five times less money than building a conventional data centerwith the...
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