Sunrun 'distributed data center' pilot taps its home solar and batter…

Sunrun is piloting a 'distributed data center' that monetises its network of home solar panels and batteries by selling computing capacity to data-intensive customers. The move addresses pressure from clean energy advocates for hyperscalers to fund residential renewable infrastructure. If you're building inference workloads or batch compute that tolerates latency, Sunrun just proved you can source power and hardware from residential solar without building a data centre. The unit economics work when you're buying distributed megawatts at residential rates and monetising idle capacity; call Sunrun before a hyperscaler locks down the network.