Building a 40kW solar-powered data center in his Texas home that pays for the house
BASS 2024 10 Ben Fielding, Greg Osuri, Guy Wuollet, Steven Willinger (Stanford Blockchain Club)
“So I’m building a data center in my house in Texas, with a ‘come and take it’ flag in front of it, and that’s going to be 40 kilowatt, solar powered — it’s going to pay for the house. So I think we have an opportunity now: people are going to use my GPUs that are in my house because you have no other option, really.” — 00:10:24
Context: Concrete personal example of the home-compute-earning-income thesis, delivered mid-argument about the decentralization window; also cites Google DeepMind’s DiLoCo paper as promising work on distributed-training latency.