SPAN, a San Francisco-based startup, is pioneering a new approach to data centers by proposing a 'distributed data center solution' that can be installed in residential neighborhoods. The initiative aims to utilize excess power capacity from homes to host mini data centers, which would provide homeowners with subsidized electricity and internet access. The company has begun pilot testing and plans to conduct a trial run involving 100 homes this year. Each installation will feature thousands of XFRA nodes equipped with liquid-cooled Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, designed to operate quietly and efficiently. SPAN's model is projected to be five times cheaper than constructing a traditional 100-megawatt data center with equivalent computing power. By 2027, SPAN aims to scale up to 80,000 XFRA nodes across the United States, generating over 1 gigawatt of distributed compute power. This innovative solution seeks to alleviate the environmental concerns and community opposition typically associated with large data centers, while providing essential support for cloud gaming, content streaming, and AI inference applications.