"Span claims it can deploy 8,000 units six times faster and at one-fifth the cost of building a comparable 100-megawatt centralized data center, while a traditional data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 households. Span CEO Arch Rao says the model helps "meet what is clearly an insatiable demand for more compute, much more cost effectively, while benefiting individual consumers." Homeowners get a flat fee for power and Wi-Fi while being compensated based on Span's energy and network use."
"PulteGroup operates 1,043 active communities across more than 45 markets, giving NVIDIA national distribution into freshly poured slabs. The timing helps. Housing starts hit 1.50 million annualized units in March 2026, up 7.4% month over month, sitting in the 90.9th percentile of historical activity. Pulte itself logged net new orders of 8,034 homes in Q1 2026, up 3% year over year."
"The home node plugs into NVIDIA's broader edge arsenal: DGX Spark personal AI supercomputers, the RTX PRO 5000 72GB Blackwell GPU for local agentic workflows, BlueField-4 data processors, Jetson AGX Thor for robotics, and GeForce RTX 5060 cards starting at $299. CFO Colette Kress told investors that "DGX Spark and Station revolutionized personal computing by putting the power of an AI supercomputer in a desktop form factor.""
"CEO Jensen Huang frames the moment bluntly. "Enterprise adoption of agents is skyrocketing," he said on the Q4 call, with customers racing to fund the AI compute that powers the industrial revolut"
NVIDIA is partnering with Span and PulteGroup to place residential XFRA units in new homes. These small data centers connect to Span smart panels that tap unused grid capacity. Span claims the units can be deployed faster and at lower cost than building large centralized data centers, while centralized facilities consume electricity comparable to tens of thousands of households. Homeowners receive a flat fee for power and Wi-Fi and additional compensation based on energy and network usage. PulteGroup’s large footprint of active communities provides broad distribution. The approach is supported by NVIDIA edge hardware including DGX Spark, RTX PRO 5000 GPUs, BlueField-4 processors, Jetson AGX Thor, and GeForce RTX 5060 cards.
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