Within 5-10 years you're going to see a box like one of those AMD Halo nodes running homes.

They'll be controlling lights and temperature, they'll be adding calendar reminders that show up on your phone and your fridge. Your phone and devices might sync pictures and videos there instead of the large cloud providers. They'll also be a media server, able to stream and multiplex whatever content you want through the home. They'll also be a VPN endpoint, likely your home router, maybe also a wifi access point.

I think this makes quite a bit of sense. I don't think they'll be ubiquitous, but they could be.

This distributes the power demand where local solar generation can supplement , gives the home user a lot of control, and claims overship of the user data from big tech.

Maybe I'm imagining things but this is what I think is coming.

It's the lmm/data heart of the home. A useful digital tool.