Mission
Most of the computing capacity the world needs already exists
It sits in homes and small businesses: paid for, powered on, connected to broadband, and idle most of the day. For work that needs to happen close to people, putting that capacity to use is faster, cheaper, and less wasteful than building more data centers to do the same job.
The capacity is already built
A gaming PC's GPU sits idle most of the day. A laptop uses a fraction of its processor while someone writes an email. A small business's server goes quiet after hours.
That hardware has already been bought and connected. What's been missing is a safe way to put the unused part to work, and to pay the people who own it.
Distance is the one thing data centers can't fix
Data can only travel so fast. When the nearest data center is hundreds of miles away, every request pays for that distance in latency. Edge Nodes serve from inside every neighborhood, so data gets processed down the street, not in Ashburn.
For a video stream, that means a better experience. For a medical monitor, a security feed, or a store's real-time inventory, it can decide whether the system works at all.
Using what exists costs less than building new
Data centers need land, power, cooling, and a hardware refresh every few years, and customers pay for all of it. A network built on existing devices skips most of that cost.
Operators earn from capacity they weren't using anyway, and customers pay less for delivery that's closer to their users. See our Edge CDN.
It wastes less
New data centers add demand for power and water, and each refresh cycle retires working hardware. We don't claim to erase that footprint.
We avoid adding to it where existing devices can do the job, and we give idle hardware useful work instead of an early retirement.
It spreads the value around
Low-latency edge infrastructure has mostly been available to companies big enough to build it. A distributed network opens both sides: smaller companies and developers get edge performance without building anything, and individuals and small businesses earn income from hardware they already own.
Think of it as the gig economy for compute.
Fair questions
Isn't a home less reliable than a data center?
Any single machine is. So workloads are spread across many Edge Nodes, with regional infrastructure and the cloud behind them. Reliability comes from massive redundancy built into the network, not any one device.
Can I trust someone else's computer with my data — or someone else's workload on mine?
Level 1 workloads are encrypted without any node holding the key, so we don't have to trust them. Our security white paper, Two Strangers, One Machine (opens in a new tab), sets out the model in full.
Is this peer-to-peer?
No. Edge Nodes serve content over standard HTTPS to ordinary browsers and apps. End users don't install anything, operators are paid, and customers get a managed service.
Is it real yet?
Yes. Our Edge CDN has been in open beta since September 2026. AI inference comes next on the same network, followed by general-purpose edge computing. You can track network growth using our node map (opens in a new tab).
For the work that has to happen close to people, the best infrastructure may be the kind that's already in their homes and offices.
Not replacing the cloud — extending it
Centralized data centers will keep doing what they do well. That's the True Edge.