You can put a data center at your house—but who really pays?

# The Idea: Mini Data Centers in Your Backyard Nvidia is backing a startup that wants to put small computer servers beside your house (in boxes that look like air conditioning units) to help power the AI boom. The catch is that data centers need enormous amounts of electricity, so the company is betting it's cheaper to tap into the extra power your home already has available and pay you a portion of your electric bill in exchange for hosting one. It's an interesting solution to a real problem—we're running out of places to build traditional data centers because the electrical grid can't support them—but nobody's actually tried this at scale yet.