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>also why hyperscalers are paying folks to host gpu clusters in their homes Source? There's definitely shady people paying people to host proxies, but hypersca
by gruez 5d ago
>also why hyperscalers are paying folks to host gpu clusters in their homes
Source? There's definitely shady people paying people to host proxies, but hyperscalers doing it would be surprising.
- walrus01 5d agoMy understanding of it so far is that it is at most, 50 or 100 houses as a test... It's a startup that wants to make it wide scale but hasn't got there yet. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=span+residential+gpu+datacenter https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=span+resi...
- gruez 5d agoCalling them a "hyperscaler" is a stretch. By all accounts it's some renewables startup that's trying to pivot into AI because obviously AI = $$$, and calling themselves a "hyperscaler" in the process. Calling them a "hyperscaler" makes as much sense as some guy who runs a homelab in his basement as a "datacenter". https://www.span.io/blog/span-announces-xfra-a-distributed-data-center-solution-to-close-the-speed-to-power-gap-for-ai-compute-demand https://www.span.io/blog/span-announces-xfra-a-distributed-d...