How to get involved
Becoming a host is a simple painless process.
Savings shown are illustrative. Your actual bill depends on your plan and how much capacity your node contributes.
Your neighborhood is the data center.
Welcome to the Nostram way, where we use the resources we already have to build the future we want. Nostram places small compute nodes in homes, libraries, fire stations, and any other eligible location to carry out our mission: sustainable compute on the edge. By working together, we can build a more sustainable way to move data. Deploy Nostram nodes across a town or city, and that community becomes its own data center, with the benefits and the control staying with the people who live there. Join us in the mission for sustainable compute, by the people, for the people.
How a neighborhood does the work of a data center
A traditional data center is one building holding thousands of machines. Nostram is thousands of small machines with no centralized building at all. Each piece of hardware is simple. The coordination between them is what we build.
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A node goes into a host's home
A compact, quiet unit plugs into power and internet. It runs on its own and never touches the household's devices or data. Hosts are not limited to just homes; you can find these devices in any location that's willing to host.
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Nodes link into one network
As nodes are distributed, they are linked together into one giant connected network of hardware. That network acts as a mesh, built for connectivity and redundancy. When a compute task is handed to the network, it is broken into manageable pieces and spread across the nodes.
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Results come back together
As each node finishes its piece of the work alongside the others, the finished pieces are brought back together and the task is complete. If a node goes offline mid-job, its piece is reassigned to another node and nothing is lost. Nothing depends on any single machine, which creates redundancy and reliability.
Compute by the people, for the people
Today's compute is concentrated in enormous buildings (data centers) owned by large corporations. Nostram hands control back to the communities that use it. The people who host the network are partners in it, and the people who need compute get it without paying for a big corporation's empire. See the diagrams below to help understand the differences between conventional data centers and Nostram's network.
Think of what rooftop solar did to the power industry. Generation used to happen only in a few giant plants; now it happens on thousands of rooftops, feeding the same grid, and the grid is stronger for it. Decentralized hardware does the same thing for the internet. Compute stops living in a handful of buildings and starts living everywhere, on the same backbone, with no single place that can take it all down. That is the future we are building: redundant, connected, and shared.
- One building, one site, one owner
- Dedicated power feed the size of a town
- Industrial cooling running around the clock
- One outage takes everything down
- Data controlled by one company without accountability
- Millions of homes on existing fiber, no building to build
- Runs on power connections that already exist
- No cooling plant; a home handles the heat easily
- Lose a node, the work reroutes
- Hosted by partners in the community
- Real financial incentive for hosts
More sustainable
A hyperscale data center needs new land, new buildings, industrial cooling, and a grid connection the size of a small city. Nostram uses homes that already exist, on power connections that are already there, with no cooling plant and nothing new built. The heat a node gives off is not significant, and the home's existing climate control handles it easily.
Redundant by design
A single data center is a single point of failure. One fiber cut, one power event, one fire, and everything in it goes dark. Nostram has no center to take out. Work is spread across hundreds of homes on different streets, different circuits, and different providers, and the scheduler reroutes around any node that drops.
Three ways into the network
The network only exists because people choose to take part in it. Whether you need compute, can host it, or want to help build it, there is a place for you.
Buy compute
For teams with heavy processing jobs that don't want to build or rent a data center to run them: model training, inference, simulations, and large batch work.
Talk to us about a workloadHost a node
For homeowners with a spare outlet and a stable connection. The node takes care of itself, and you are paid for the capacity it contributes. Your home becomes part of the infrastructure, and you become a partner in the network.
Ask about hostingBuild with us
For investors, hardware partners, and utilities who see where distributed compute is going and want a seat at the table early.
Start a conversationQuestions people ask first
The short answers. We are happy to give the long ones too.
Does a node use my home's data or devices?
No. The node is a separate machine on your connection. It cannot access anything else in your home.
What happens if my internet drops?
The scheduler notices, reassigns the piece of work your node was doing, and picks you back up when you are online again. Nothing is lost.
Is this the same as cloud computing?
It is the same idea, renting compute, but the machines are spread across homes instead of stacked in one building. That changes the cost, the resilience, who owns it, and where the power comes from.
Is it running today?
Yes. A working network with a live operations center and scheduler is running today, and we are growing it one neighborhood at a time.
What a host needs
Three things. If you have them, you are ready for the call.
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One open outlet
At least one available 15-amp outlet in a safe, secure spot inside the home. The node runs on ordinary household power.
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A 1 gig fiber hookup
A 1-gigabit fiber connection at the home. This is the line the node uses to talk to the network.
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A signed agreement
A simple hosting agreement between you and Nostram, signed before the install, so both sides know what to expect.