A UK company is pitching to place compute hardware into street lights.

As reported by Construction Management and others, Conflow Power Group is planning to put Nvidia Jetson compute modules into its iLamp smart street lights.

The company announced the iLamp earlier this year, aiming to add on-lamp solar panels and batteries to the humble lamp post, as well as options to include 5G WiFi, traffic management, CCTV, environmental sensors, and other modules.

Each iLamp needs 80W to operate, but can supply 200-600W to external modules such as Jetson hardware.

The base model currently costs £7,500 ($9,900), the company says buyers could generate revenue by charging the AI providers for using the Jetson processors. Further details on how such a distributed system would work haven’t been shared.

“By replacing them with iLamps fitted with Nvidia Jetson processors, you create a huge distributed data center which is clean, non-water-hungry, and low latency because the servers are near to the users,” said Edward Fitzpatrick, director of Conflow Power.

Conflow is reportedly in negotiations with several companies and governments about a roll-out.

Earlier this year, a company was pitching the concept of deploying GPUs in parking lots powered by solar panels in a behind-the-meter-type arrangement. Belgian startup Tonomia is working with UK hardware provider Panchaea to offer what it’s calling eCloud; a distributed AI platform housed in solar canopy systems in parking lots.