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NVIDIA IS PUTTING $250,000 WORTH OF GPUs IN ORDINARY HOMES

And the homeowner doesn't pay a single cent for the hardware.

It's a box the size of an air conditioner, liquid-cooled, fanless, mounted on the exterior wall.

Inside: 16 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs + 4 server CPUs + 3TB of RAM.

Span + Nvidia + PulteGroup install it for free.

In exchange:

→ They pay for your electricity and internet (or charge you a low flat fee)

→ They use the electrical capacity your home isn't taking advantage of (~60%)

Right now, just 100 new homes.

The plan: 80,000 nodes and 1 gigawatt of compute by 2027.

They don't pay you.

They wipe out your bill.

And your home becomes a node in the AI infrastructure.

This is no longer science fiction.

(credit: @ UnTalNixon_exe on x)

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A few weeks ago, we discussed this idea

https://www.reddit.com/r/Innovation/s/hGWzZ5o5Ig

I saw this post on X today, and all of a sudden this idea got a few steps closer.

What do you think?

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In 5 years, digital intelligence will exceed the sum of all human intelligence, there will be 100M humanoid robots, maybe even a billion, and the economy will double its current size.

Let’s talk about the robots bit.

Back in January, Musk admitted that Optimus robots aren't really doing anything useful in Tesla's factories. Last month, he said that "Optimus production will be extremely slow at first, as everything is new. This is not like making a car". Remember that bit.

Going from zero value to 100M robots in 5 years sounds... ambitious.

Even if the tech works and it's only a matter of scaling, which it isn't, the challenge is… well, huge.

As of today, 97% of all humanoid robots made in the first half of 2026 are Chinese. Not tooting their horn, just stating facts.

They took a page from Chinese EV makers. Chinese EVs don’t exactly compete with American or European cars. They feel more like a smartphone. 

EV makers’ strategy builds on different core constraints, different organizing ideas. Production cycles are designed for land-grab and fast tech innovation. They subsidize and can even afford to lose on car deals. Improving the technology (batteries, engine, software) and scaling the supply chain (rare earth minerals, magnets, factories) are more important than making a profit.

Remember “This is not like making a car”? Well, the Chinese don’t think so. Chinese robot makers not only follow a similar strategy, but they also share a similar infrastructure. Improving battery life and actuators helps not only EV makers, but robot makers, too.

Sure, they're behind when it comes to foundational AI models, but robots need embedded AI, and a massive amount of training data. Technicians, engineers, factory workers - people doing work that robots will replace (in space, in declining population countries like China, or by replacing human labor, let's not sugarcoat it).

Who has better access to petabytes of everyday factory worker data that can be used to train robots?

And even if American foundational AI models have the edge today, the Chinese models seem to catch up fast.

Sure, the FCC banned foreign-made humanoid robots and robot dogs last month because they are a "risk to national security". Okay, makes sense. It buys some time for American makers, maybe.

But how do US makers plan to win the robot race?

When we introduced this to the legacy efoil electric watercraft industry the gatekeepers and old guards went nuts and banned this video trying to protect their inflated margins of their outdated tech. Does it look like a scam to you or does it actually look like innovation? This is real footage shot in a smart phone. Thoughts?

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm a university student at working on a project about a Smart Posture Monitoring Backpack.

The idea is a backpack that can detect when you're slouching and give you a vibration alert, with potential features like GPS tracking and an SOS emergency button for added safety.

I'm conducting a short survey to understand whether people would actually find something like this useful and what features they'd value most.

📝 Survey takes around 2 minutes:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUYuoTNldUjsqLH-J2skvDlQyFE8zrfL5dho1kXWpnd85WIg/viewform?usp=preview

I'd really appreciate your response! ❤️ Every response genuinely helps with my project.

If you fill mine out, feel free to share your survey in the comments and I'll return the favor!