MICRO-ANALYSIS: How Anyone Could Make Money From the Data Center Boom

If your expensive gaming computer spends most of the day gathering dust, it could soon become a small money-making machine.

Several companies want to rent the graphics-processing power scattered across people’s homes and use it to run artificial intelligence models. The idea resembles Uber or Airbnb, but the asset being rented is neither a car nor a room.

Instead, it is the computer’s idle “brain muscle.”