Electrical panel company SPAN has launched XFRA, a “distributed data center” product that uses underutilized electrical capacity in homes and commercial spaces to power compute.

According to XFRA’s website, each compute node will contain 16 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPUs and four AMD Epyc GPUs.

This will be coordinated through XFRA’s own orchestration platform, XFRA Cloud.

SPAN will use its electrical panel’s energy management functions to provide each compute node with capacity not currently in use. Renders suggest an outdoor unit located on the owner's property.

This is “not intended to replace centralized data centers, but instead augment them by accelerating capacity growth at the grid Edge,” SPAN said in its announcement.

The company said that US-based home construction company PulteGroup would help with the rollout of the product.

With initial deployments beginning "later this year," SPAN said it has developed a pipeline of deployment capacity to achieve gigawatt-scale in 2027.

“XFRA offers an innovative solution that can help to reduce build costs,” said Brian Jamison, PulteGroup VP, strategic sourcing & procurement. “Building homes with SPAN Panels, XFRA, and battery backup, not only allows us to deliver homes with lower operating cost, but also allows us to use a home’s underutilized power infrastructure to benefit the grid overall.”

SPAN is also part of Utilize, a lobbying group formed last March that advocates for “smarter, faster, and more affordable use of existing grid infrastructure” in the US. The group counts Google, Tesla, and HVAC firm Carrier among its members.