π¨ BREAKING: AI JUST FOUND A WAY INTO YOUR GARAGE.
Hereβs how it works: A startup called Span, backed by NVIDIA and homebuilder Pulte, is rolling out neighborhood-scale AI infrastructure by installing a compute node outside your home, roughly the size of an AC unit.
Whatβs inside the box?
β 16 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUsβ¨β 4 AMD EPYC server CPUsβ¨β 3TB of memoryβ¨β A 15kWh whole-home backup battery
Thatβs more than $200,000 worth of hardware sitting next to your house. You donβt own it, but you benefit from it.
The homeowner deal:
β Free installation (starting with new construction)β¨β Span covers your electricity and internet costsβ¨β You pay a flat monthly fee (~$150)β¨β Annual savings could reach several thousand dollars
The system taps into unused electrical capacity already available in most homes. A typical 200-amp house rarely uses its full power allocation, leaving a large amount of capacity idle. Span wants to convert that excess power into AI compute.
The bigger vision is even more ambitious: Span estimates that 8,000 homes running these nodes could create the equivalent of a 100MW AI data centerβat a fraction of the cost and deployment time of a traditional facility.
No massive new campus.
β¨No years-long grid connection delays.
β¨No waiting for new power plants.
As AI demand explodes, the company is betting that the future of compute wonβt be concentrated in giant data centers.
It will be distributed across thousands of homes.
A 100-home pilot is expected in Fall 2026, with broader deployment targeted for 2027.
The AI infrastructure race may have just moved into the suburbs.