Pangolin might be interesting for you.

Gardiner Bryant did a video on this: https://video.4d2.org/w/rPMMDnLBA4kVmScBD6w9K5

Are you talking about computing power?

I’ve been pondering about this because and feel the need. I don’t have any solar, but I’d like to play around with local AI a bit. I don’t even have the hardware at the moment because driver support isn’t ready on my laptop.

I’d even like to try a coding agent to find out if there are any useful cases. I don’t want to do it in the cloud though. So I thought it’d be cool if someone with cheap or excess electricity could provide their hardware. I think it’s quite a challenge to do that, though.

Right now I’m thinking, maybe running a decentralized Libre Translate service or something similar could be a nice project. Mastodon uses this for post translation and self hosted instances could use it as a translation service. Somewhere, the sun is always shining on someone’s roof with solar, cheap energy and a spare GPU, I assume. I don’t think it makes a difference if a post is being translated in Australia when I browse my timeline at night in Germany.

Peer Tube video encoding could also be done like this.

If anyone has links to ideas about decentralized data centers or whatever that would be, I’d be very interested. I think it would also help with protest against data centers being built, because it’s nice to be able to have examples for alternatives. A way of using what’s already there without building a grid only big tech and the fossil fuel industry need.

Without relying on the internet, people could offer to back up BluRays for friends or the community. Or optimize the hell out of HomeAssistant to run Jellyfin tasks and stuff when there’s lots of solar.