Homes as power plants for AI
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“Homes are essentially mini power plants if you really have solar… there are homes where there’s great wind, there are homes where there’s great sun, there’s homes where there’s great geothermal… and there are homes everywhere. So why not use these homes as power plants for AI?” — 00:35:41
Context: Explaining Akash’s newly announced “home node”; he says he testified in Congress “last May” about solving the energy crisis by using homes, since homes are dual-purpose with excess energy for AI training or inference.