Sunrun (NASDAQ:RUN), America's largest provider of home battery storage, solar, and home-to-grid power plants, today launched a distributed AI compute pilot program. The pilot marks Sunrun's first step into distributed edge computing, a new business category that the company believes represents a high-margin revenue opportunity leveraging its existing energy infrastructure, large customer base, and grid service capabilities.

Following a successful proof of concept that demonstrated revenue generation and high demand for distributed compute, Sunrun is expanding the pilot to place numerous compute nodes in homes equipped with Sunrun solar and battery storage systems. Sunrun is coordinating the selling of inference capacity to enterprise compute buyers, while also testing the nodes under a variety of conditions and rate structures to gather operational data and information. Participating homeowners are compensated for hosting the compute nodes.