Sunrun tests an AI network built from solar homes, not another data c…

Sunrun is piloting a distributed AI compute network by placing processing hardware in homes with solar and battery systems, selling the aggregated capacity to enterprise AI customers instead of building traditional data centres. The approach sidesteps community opposition to large data centre construction while monetising existing home energy infrastructure. If you sell cooling, power distribution, or thermal management to data centres, your customer base just became 1.1 million homes. Sunrun proved the model works; now it needs to scale hardware into living rooms, and that supply chain is wide open.