A partnership between Nvidia and a homebuilder could transform individual homes into data centers that can be deployed much faster and at less cost than building massive data center complexes.
Nvidia is working with homebuilder PulteGroup to deploy miniature residential data centers that use Span 'smart panels' to tap into the unused grid capacity of individual homes, reports Rich Duprey for Yahoo Finance.
"The pitch is brutal math. Span claims it can deploy 8,000 units six times faster and at one-fifth the cost of building a comparable 100-megawatt centralized data center, while a traditional data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 households." According to the article, homeowners would get a flat fee for power and WiFi and be compensated for Span's energy use.
Read the full story: Nvidia Wants Your Next House to be a Mini Data Center
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