Overview
- SPAN introduced XFRA, a network that places enterprise AI servers at homes and small businesses in partnership with Nvidia.
- Each XFRA node uses Dell PowerEdge hardware with 16 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPUs, four AMD Epyc CPUs, and 3 TB of RAM, according to the company.
- SPAN’s smart electrical panel shifts unused household power to the node, and a backup battery smooths demand spikes and keeps essential loads running during outages.
- The company plans a 100-node proof of concept in 2026 in new-build homes in a southwestern state, with broader deployments later in 2026 and a stated goal of gigawatt-scale capacity by 2027.
- SPAN says U.S. data centers used 183 TWh of electricity in 2024 with long interconnection delays, and it pitches grid-edge nodes as a faster way to serve rising AI inference needs near users.