| ▲ | gruez 2 hours 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. |
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| ▲ | walrus01 2 hours ago | parent [-] |
| My 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+resi... |
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| ▲ | gruez 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Calling them a "hyperscaler" is a stretch. By all accounts it's some renewables startup that's trying to pivot into AI because obviously AI = $$$, and calling themselves a "hyperscaler" in the process. Calling them a "hyperscaler" makes as much sense as some guy who runs a homelab in his basement as a "datacenter". https://www.span.io/blog/span-announces-xfra-a-distributed-d... | | |
| ▲ | walrus01 12 minutes ago | parent [-] | | My thoughts exactly. In the current environment you could slap "AI" on a potato and get $$$ for it. |
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