I absolutely love this. It would be fascinating for a CDN to figure out the exact battery-size/latency-hit arbitrage points so that you could have a "follow th

I absolutely love this. It would be fascinating for a CDN to figure out the exact battery-size/latency-hit arbitrage points so that you could have a "follow the sun edge computing" model. People using your internet service mid-day get the full local low-latency performance as usual. Late-day/early-evening business similarly get full local performance from the battery for a few hours. Then evening hours the latency hit grows as the sun and therefore the pop you're hitting tracks further west. If you're the kind of person who goes to bed early, or maybe just watches streaming video when its late anyway, you'll never even notice the latency hit (I figure 50-100ms most of the time). The ability to geographically route/control your traffic and shift which pops are active is already an innate capability of a CDN. The vertical integration from solar panels to high-margin-saas would be economically fascinating. And the "green tax" would be negligible.