Plain Strata B6: Airbnb for GPUs

Plain Strata · Jun 2, 2026 · 19m

Training and running AI needs one specific, expensive ingredient: graphics processing units, the chips that do the enormous parallel arithmetic neural networks demand. They are scarce, they are costly, and most of the world's supply sits inside a handful of giant cloud companies. So a natural question arises. Could you rent GPU time from anyone who happens to have a spare one, the way you rent a stranger's spare room instead of booking a hotel? Every compute rental has the same three parties: a buyer who wants computing power, a seller who owns the hardware, and a layer in between that…