A fixed fee, all year
Paid every month for the space, whether or not the computer is busy.
Solar Inference · Compute at home
Put compute where the power already is.
We place quiet, datacenter-class AI computers in the yards of homes with power to spare. The home gets a fixed monthly fee, heat in winter and backup power in an outage. We handle the rest.
A concept in development in New Jersey. Figures are estimates, not promises.
Why now
AI is running short of power, not chips.
Datacenters wait years for a grid connection. Homes already have service they rarely use in full.
Sold out
Amazon says AWS computing capacity is largely sold out through 2027, and a good part of 2028.
Reuters, October 2026
$9.70
The median rental price for one NVIDIA B300 GPU-hour on October 25, up 12% in 90 days.
GetDeploying, October 2026
~4 years
The average U.S. wait for a new datacenter’s grid connection.
JLL Global Data Center Outlook, 2026
~40%
How much of its electrical capacity the average American home uses.
Span, via Fortune, May 2026
The node
A quiet box in the yard.
One datacenter-class server in a sealed, cooled enclosure about the size of an air-conditioning unit. We own it, install it, insure it and run it remotely. AI teams rent its computing by the hour.
It sits behind its own meter and its own internet line, and never touches the home’s network.
Solar Inference home nodeDesign targets
- Compute
- 8 × NVIDIA B300 GPUs in one server
- Steady load
- ≈ 15 kW, around the clock
- Heat output
- ≈ 51,000 BTU/h, about a small furnace
- Cooling
- Sealed liquid loop and a quiet outdoor cooler
- Backup
- A battery bank that carries the house in an outage
- Network
- Its own business fiber line
- Noise
- Under 50 dBA at the property line at night
- Size
- About an air-conditioning condenser
- Operation
- Remote monitoring, pricing and power control, 24/7
Targets for the first enclosure, not a finished product.
What the home gets
A small utility in the back yard.
The node earns its keep for the house as well as for us.
Warmth in winter
About 15 kW of heat around the clock. Piped into the house, it can carry much of the winter heating.
Power when the grid is down
A battery in the enclosure backs up the house. In an outage the computer steps aside and the house gets the power.
A partner for the panels
Runs on the home’s solar when the sun is up, and may qualify for clean-energy incentives a household can’t claim alone.
How it pays
How the money flows.
Renters
AI teams rent GPU time by the hour, online.
Marketplaces
Match renters to machines and keep a share of each hour.
Solar Inference
Owns and runs the node. Pays for hardware, power, internet, insurance and upkeep.
The host home
A fixed monthly fee, winter heat and backup power.
The host’s fee is fixed.
It doesn’t rise or fall with rentals. The market risk stays with us, not with the home.
One large node per site.
Every site carries fixed costs: its internet line, insurance, installation and visits. A datacenter-class node earns enough to carry them. A small one doesn’t.
Hosting a node
What a host home needs, and what we handle.
The home brings
- Room on its electrical service for about 20 kW, often through a 400 A upgrade or a load-managing panel
- A level spot in the yard, back from the property line
- Fiber internet available at the street
- An owner, not a renter
- A yes from the home’s insurer, with our paperwork
We handle
- Zoning and permits, town by town
- The utility: service, metering and peak-time limits
- Design, installation and insurance
- Monitoring and repairs, with a few visits a year
- Removal within days if the home is sold
Permission
Town by town, with the utility.
Most town codes never imagined a computer in the back yard. We take that on ourselves, one town at a time.
Read the code
Home-business rules, accessory equipment, and any data-center definition or ban.
Ask for a ruling
That the unit is accessory equipment, like a generator or an AC condenser.
Meet the standards
Setbacks, screening, permits, and the night noise limit at the property line.
Write the rule
Work with the town on a simple standard for home compute, as towns did for solar.
564towns in New Jersey
~3 dozenhave banned data centers. Most have no rule either way.
The field
Others are building this too.
Big players are betting that homes have power to spare.
Span, with Nvidia and PulteGroup
California
Liquid-cooled compute nodes about the size of an air-conditioning unit, outside new homes. Prototypes running since May 2026.
Heata
United Kingdom
Servers on home hot-water tanks. The computing heats the water, so the household gets free hot water. About 100 homes so far.
Solar Inference
New Jersey
Already renting datacenter-grade GPUs online from a home server room. Next: one large node, then host homes in existing neighborhoods.
Where we are
We already do this, at a smaller size.
What we’ve built
Machines renting online
GPU servers in a home server room, rented by AI teams most of the time since summer 2026.
Software that runs without anyone at the keyboard
Our own monitoring, pricing and power control, around the clock.
Lessons from home
What power, heat and noise teach you at home scale, before you build anything bigger.
What happens next
- The first nodeBuilt and run on our own site, to prove the template.
- The enclosureCooling, sound treatment, battery and heat recovery in one box.
- The utilityService, metering and peak-time control for a home node.
- The townsRank New Jersey’s towns and ask the first ones for a ruling.
- First host homesOnce the first node has proven the design.
Questions
What a homeowner asks first.
Will the neighbors hear it?
It’s designed to stay under New Jersey’s night limit at the property line, 50 decibels, about the sound of a quiet office.
What if the power goes out?
The battery backs up the house. The computer shuts itself down first, so the house gets the power.
Is it safe?
Listed equipment on its own circuits, watched around the clock for heat and smoke, with remote shutoff. We insure it, and our liability policy covers the home.
Can it see our network?
No. It has its own fiber line and never joins the home network. We never look at what customers run on it.
Does it raise our electric bill?
No. The node’s power is on its own meter or included in our fee, never on the household’s bill.
Do we have to do anything?
No. We monitor and repair it remotely, with a few scheduled visits a year. You only keep the circuit on and let us in on notice.
What if we sell the house?
The agreement ends, and we remove the box within days.
Is our town allowed?
That’s the first thing we check. If your town’s code is silent, we ask for a ruling. If it has banned data centers, we won’t place a node there.
Put compute where the power already is.
Interested in hosting a node, or in bringing this to your town? We’d like to hear from you.
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