Honestly, with all the laptops corporations have just sitting on desks or in people's homes, theres quite a lot of unused compute.

* someone in Chrome leadership

@mainframed767 I JUST saw a story about a company proposing deploying “fractional data centers” into residential areas to take advantage of electrical grid surplus. 🥹

Like, hands off, that’s mine!!

@JetSm00th "surplus"

@mainframed767 @JetSm00th This is why I installed solar and built a shed office.

I’ll maintain my own data center, thankyouverymuch! 🤓

@mainframed767 well I don;t know why we're not processing blockchains right now.

Hey, remember back in the day with `Folding At Home` (protein folding simulation) and `SETI @ home` (processing radio astronmy data)? good times where you could donate your spare cpu cycles.

@tezoatlipoca @mainframed767 Folding@Home is still up and running and has lots of simulations to run...

@alan @mainframed767 see? that's legit distributed home community computing power that's doing real science right there.

I have a homelab that serves... my blog and my mp3s. It can do some folding - thanks for the tip about that still being a thing!