[roadbuster]

- Power fail-over (battery + generator backup) in every house?

- Could get expensive flying a technician to every household to upgrade hardware in the racks

- Probably don't want everyone at home having physical access to storage devices

- Massive theft risk

- Homeowner's insurance would probably be irked

[bicepjai]

All the problems you mentioned can be reframed as positive feedback for the economy we’re evolving into. Let me dream the arguments for each of your bullet points:

1. Power fail-over (battery + generator backup) in every house? - I recently listened to a Planet Money episode about how DC/AI infrastructure needs are driving up electricity prices in Ohio. Ordinary households end up paying higher bills while big entities plan/build for reliable power. - Maybe household-level infrastructure could be improved as part of making this kind of model viable. This applies to networking infrastructure too

3. Could get expensive flying a technician to every household to upgrade hardware in the racks - People with enough education can be trained, and with the incentive of being paid, households themselves could become the technicians.

4. Probably don’t want everyone at home having physical access to storage devices - Same idea: if households are being paid and it’s “their role” to manage, the access concern gets reframed as operational responsibility.

5. Massive theft risk - Theft risk already exists today (even in good neighborhoods). The incremental risk might be negligible.

6. Homeowner’s insurance would probably… - If we squint hard enough, there are arguments here too (e.g., payments not missed, additional compensation).

(Planet Money link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id2907834...)