Sunrun launches pilot to place AI compute nodes in customers' homes with solar+battery
Sunrun, a solar and home energy storage company, is launching a distributed AI compute pilot program that places compute nodes in customers' homes equipped with Sunrun solar and battery systems. Participants will be compensated for hosting the nodes, which Sunrun plans to sell as distributed AI data center capacity.
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