Off-grid DGX Spark rig on 600W solar joins P2P training of an 80B model
jon_durbin · x · 2026-09-15
Developer jondurbin demoed parallax, his P2P uncensorable AI stack: a single DGX Spark 'datacenter' in his forge, powered by two solar blankets (600W input, <200W draw) with an EcoFlow battery, lapdock KVM and Starlink, capable of co-training an 80B parameter model with other nodes. He frames it as a response to regulatory capture and AI cabalism, arguing decentralized AI should do to centralized AI what Bitcoin did to finance, with Chutes + parallax as a first step.
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