Green Compute: A New Revenue Source For Green Properties

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Instead of sending compute jobs to centralized data centers, green compute happens at the green energy sites. Not every type of compute job, unfortunately. And not every type of green energy property. But a mountain forest retreat, like the Stillhouse Compute hollow in western North Carolina, is a green energy property that can support green compute. Technology developed by Stillhouse Compute can be applied to similar properties and other cases of spare green energy.

Mountain forests capture carbon and provide habitat. They can also make money for their owners. One option is clear-cut logging. Not good for the critters, and not much capturing carbon for a good while. 

Revenue generating green compute is another option that can complement carbon capture payments. Especially for retreat properties that need to be energy independent at peak usage but seldom are occupied. Or short-term rental properties with strong seasonal peaks. 

At large forest properties, green compute can help conserve wildlife habitats by making green energy properties financially sustainable. The ingredients are:

A Green Compute Appliance (GCA) is a box that makes money for green energy property owners. It runs on the lowest economically feasible wattage and turns spare green energy into rentable compute via a connection to the Internet. 

To the property owner, it is not a computer. They don't log in. They don't know what it is doing. They don't have any kind of access, and it will shut itself down if it detects sabotage. 

A fleet of GCAs can take on larger jobs and be more reliable. 

The electric utilities, acting as electrical monopsonies, typically won't pay cash for extra green electricity. For properties that require energy independence but are rarely at peak usage, that's a lot of electricity flowing to the utility for nothing. Any revenue is better than zero. The electrical monopsonies have born a financial phenomenon: free green energy.  

Green Compute markets moves compute jobs to the GCAs and pays the property owners. Markets exist today that are indifferent to the source of electricity. In addition to hosting a green compute operation, Stillhouse Compute focuses on the layer between the green properties and the markets so that revenue-generating schemes can be easily swapped and run in parallel.