Can distributed data centers in individual households provide UBI?

Question

Obviously, no body likes the idea of having or living next to a data center. And AI companies want to solve UBI in a sensible manner. Why not combine these two things?AI companies, go to individual homes in a community, ask to install a GPU cluster (for a size that fits + owner agrees to), and pay the household some 100s or 1000s of dollars a month?Yes, this will cause wild incentives (for those with apartments, multiple homes, etc.) which would need to be addressed, but surely, this would long term benefit the household and also the AI companies?Almost like how your internet service provider provides you with a device that provides Wifi, but for GPU compute?

evil-olive · Accepted Answer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burglary

1337h4xx · Answer

Nice GPU you got there. Would be a shame if someone stole it and sold it for pennies on the dollar. We can't even deliver a meal autonomously in the USA.

icedchai · Answer

Cooling, power, physical security, Internet bandwidth (and to a lesser extent, latency) are all issues if you are actually using those GPUs for a customer.