Key Takeaways

1. Maximize GPU monetization: Data centers unlock new revenue streams as Aethir Cloud Hosts in the decentralized GPU cloud.
2. Industry-leading utilization: Data centers can leverage Aethir’s 95%+ GPU utilization rates and rapidly scale their operations as Aethir Cloud Hosts.
3. Continuous workloads: Aethir’s pool of 150+ enterprise clients ensures steady demand for Cloud Hosts.
4. Transparent, profitable economics: Straightforward pricing, near-instant onboarding, and no hyperscaler lock-ins.

The demand for premium, high-performance GPU compute is skyrocketing worldwide, led by AI innovation. Compute-intensive workloads such as large language model (LLM) training, diffusion models, multimodal systems, and video generation require immense GPU computing power, putting pressure on GPU supply chains. Procurement cycles are long, hyperscaler data center queues are full, and enterprises are looking for faster, cheaper, and more flexible compute.

Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud model offers a viable alternative for compute providers, enabling data centers to monetize their GPUs and earn ATH tokens in return efficiently. By joining the Aethir DePIN stack as Cloud Hosts, data centers with underutilized GPU racks can maximize GPU utilization and revenue by leveraging Aethir’s network of 150+ clients and partners. 

With an average GPU utilization rate of 95%+, Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud provides unbeatable utilization for compute providers, compared to centralized clouds. Aethir’s Cloud Host model makes this possible today, without hyperscaler-style CapEx commitments, locked contract terms, or 6-12 month sales cycles.

Learn more about Aethir’s Cloud Hosts and apply here to start monetizing your idle GPUs today.

Why Monetize Idle GPUs Now?

The AI sector is on a rapid growth trajectory, and it needs vast amounts of reliable cloud computing resources to empower innovators. Centralized cloud providers can’t efficiently serve AI enterprises due to geographic constraints, supply chain bottlenecks, vendor lock-in policies, and high costs.

The main problem isn’t about hardware scarcity but hardware location and utilization. Enterprise clients need quick and easy access to reliable, versatile, and cost-effective GPU compute. 

Key centralized cloud limitations for AI clients include:

1. Enterprise waitlists delay deployments.
   
   
2. GPU procurement and facility expansion take months.
   
   
3. Power costs and CapEx push payback timelines further out.

The Aethir Advantage

1. Distributed network spans 435,000+ GPU Containers across 93 countries and 200+ locations.​
2. Any data center or GPU provider with eligible hardware can become a Cloud Host and join Aethir’s DePIN stack.
3. Clients pay only for compute used; Cloud Hosts earn 80% of client fees in ATH tokens, with payouts based strictly on billable GPU hours.​
4. Higher yields: 95%+ utilization rates outperform traditional data centers that average below 40%.

As Aethir Cloud Hosts, GPU providers can access a flexible revenue-generating model for idle GPUs:

1. Higher effective utilization than centralized averages.
2. Far shorter time-to-revenue, instead of 6-12-month enterprise sales cycles.
3. OPEX-first scaling with optional financing, instead of CapEx lock-in.

This results in a practical GPU monetization model that empowers compute providers to monetize their data centers instantly, bypassing centralized cloud bottlenecks. 

Join Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud today, and start monetizing your idle GPUs as a Cloud Host by filling out this form.

The Cloud Host Model: How It Works

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Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud specializes in providing enterprise-grade GPU compute for AI inference, LLM training, VFX, 3D rendering, scientific workloads, and AI gaming services. Instead of building its own massive data centers, Aethir uses a distributed network of independent Cloud Hosts. Anyone can become an Aethir Cloud Host if they have some of the high-performance GPUs eligible for Aethir’s DePIN stack.

What Cloud Hosts Do

Cloud Hosts contribute GPU capacity to Aethir’s network. When enterprise clients run workloads on those GPUs, Hosts earn ATH tokens proportionally to the compute delivered. The more billable hours your GPUs generate, the more you earn.

Data centers can join Aethir’s GPU-as-a-Service network and become Cloud Hosts, earning ATH token rewards for their services and on top of their existing hardware. 

How the Network Ensures Trust and Quality

Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud uses a distributed network architecture with several components that ensure network performance and stability.

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This means there’s no manual client onboarding, no direct sales, and no need to negotiate one-off contracts. The network supplies the demand automatically. 

Aethir is a fully automated, decentralized GPU compute marketplace that automatically connects clients and vendors.

GPU Monetization: From Price per Hour to Margin

Unlike centralized cloud providers, Aethir’s revenue structure is transparent and straightforward. 

1. Cloud Hosts earn 80% of the fees paid by clients, while 20% is reserved for the Aethir Foundation and reinvested to improve the Aethir DePIN stack.
2. Aethir has an average GPU utilization rate of 95%, making it a much more profitable option for GPU providers than centralized clouds with utilization rates below 40%.

Approximate Monthly Revenue Example

Aethir’s monthly GPU revenue formula enables Cloud Hosts to calculate approximate revenue easily.

Monthly Revenue =(Price per hour×Utilization rate×720 hours) - (Power cost+Financing cost+Misc OPEX)

Realistic Working Example

Enterprise-grade GPUs such as NVIDIA H100s are some of the most popular chips among Aethir’s AI clients. Aethir offers H100s at $1.25/hr, which is 86% cheaper compared to Google Cloud. 

Let’s have a look at the approximate monthly earnings projection for a new Cloud Host data center that just joined Aethir’s DePIN stack, with a starting fleet of 10 H100s.

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Please keep in mind that this is a hypothetical scenario, as profit margins can vary depending on GPU type, quantity, specs, OPEX costs, etc.

This kind of profitability isn’t possible with centralized cloud providers that charge overhead costs, often have hidden costs, and have low GPU utilization rates. 

By channeling compute from Cloud Hosts to clients through a distributed network, Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud directly connects clients and compute, thus securing an average 95%+ GPU utilization rate. This translates into considerably higher revenue for Cloud Hosts compared to centralized providers.

Ready to take advantage of Aethir’s exceptionally high GPU utilization rates and start monetizing your GPUs? Fill out this form to become an Aethir Cloud Host today.

Why Data Centers Prefer Aethir

There are two traditional paths for GPU data centers:

1. Renting space to hyperscalers with multi-year contracts
   
   
2. Investing heavily in their own B2B sales pipelines

Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud offers a third path to GPU monetization for data centers. By leveraging Aethir’s distributed network architecture, data centers can maximize GPU utilization and generate a stable, constant revenue stream in ATH tokens by servicing Aethir’s growing pool of 150+ clients and partners in need of premium AI computing.

Higher GPU Utilization & Yield

Aethir’s decentralized routing mechanics aggregate demand globally and directly connect Cloud Hosts with clients, thanks to Aethir’s Indexers. Clients are connected to the physically closest available GPU Containers that fit their needs. GPU workloads get distributed based on availability, price, and proximity. 

This leads to:

1. More consistent jobs
   
   
2. Better uptime & better yield
   
   
3. Less idle hardware, thanks to higher GPU utilization rates

The ultimate result for Cloud Hosts is more revenue compared to joining centralized cloud providers.

OPEX-First Economics

Traditional cloud computing setups require heavy CapEx with restrictive payback cycles. Aethir’s approach is OPEX-first, enabling Cloud Hosts to start monetizing their GPUs and scale their operations faster.

Aethir enables Cloud Hosts to:

1. Monetize existing GPU racks immediately
   
   
2. Expand capacity using revenue, not debt
   
   
3. Leverage optional financing for scaling at the Cloud Host’s individual pace

Shorter Time-to-Revenue

Centralized hyperscaler cloud providers are notorious for their long enterprise deal cycles, which often take 6-12 months to close. Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud removes this bottleneck by enabling Cloud Hosts to deploy their hardware on Aethir’s network in a matter of days, once their Cloud Host application form has been approved. 

Furthermore, GPU providers receive 80% of the client’s payment, held for 45 days to guarantee SLA fulfillment, rather than multi-month waiting periods to settle compute payments.

The time-to-revenue flow is incomparably faster with Aethir:

1. Onboard → Verify → Supply capacity → Receive jobs
   
   
2. No long RFP cycles
   
   
3. No business development overhead

Strong Value Proposition for Clients

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One of the key strengths of Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud is its continually growing client base across the AI, gaming, Web3, and Web2 sectors, with a focus on enterprise-grade, hardware-intensive workloads. 

Aethir’s annual recurring revenue of $147m positions the company as a global leader in the decentralized GPU cloud sector, showcasing real revenue, generated by paying clients leveraging Aethir’s Cloud Host network with 435,000+ GPU Containers.

The network attracts enterprise demand because it offers:

1. Competitive $/hr GPU pricing
   
   
2. Geo-proximity for lower latency
   
   
3. Verifiable proof-backed performance
   
   
4. No waitlists or minimum commitments

Client demand fuels Cloud Host's monetization, and the network already has 150+ partners building on Aethir’s DePIN stack, which channels compute power to clients from 200+ locations worldwide.

Supercharging Your Data Center Revenue as an Aethir Cloud Host

With Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud, data center operators have several key benefits that clearly make becoming an Aethir Cloud Host the better option than joining a centralized provider.

For data-center operators, the case is simple:

1. GPU demand is at an all-time high and will continue to grow as AI advances rapidly.
2. Centralized clouds are congested, expensive, and can’t offer the versatile GPU computing services required by AI builders.
3. Enterprise clients need lower latency, transparent, affordable pricing, and rapid onboarding. Centralized clouds can’t provide any of these essential traits.
4. Aethir brings demand directly to the Cloud Host’s hardware by channeling workloads to available GPUs, therefore eliminating supply chain bottlenecks.

Aethir’s Digital Asset Treasury (DAT), the first Strategic Compute Reserve for AI computing, further accelerates growth by supporting network stability, incentivizing Cloud Host onboarding, and funding long-term GPU compute operations.

Getting Started as an Aethir Cloud Host

1. Review operational requirements: List of supported GPUs
2. Apply via this form: Become a Cloud Host
3. Integrate and verify: Use the Cloud Host portal and lightweight software for onboarding.
4. Start earning: Begin supplying jobs and generating ATH revenues.

Start monetizing your idle GPUs and connect your data center to Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud by applying here to become a Cloud Host. 

Frequently Asked Questions 

How do Cloud Hosts earn revenue with Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud?

Cloud Hosts earn 80% of client GPU fees, with workloads routed automatically through Aethir’s network. Higher utilization (95%+) means more billable hours and higher monthly revenue compared to average GPU utilization rates below 40% for centralized cloud providers.

What hardware do data centers need to join Aethir’s GPU network as Cloud Hosts?

Aethir supports a broad range of high-performance, enterprise-grade GPUs, including H100, H200, B200, and A100, as well as premium consumer-grade GPUs such as the RTX 4090. 

How does Aethir ensure reliability and correct GPU output?

Aethir’s 91,000+ Checker Nodes constantly audit GPU performance, and proof-of-compute verifies job completion before payouts are approved.

Ready to maximize your data center’s revenue and join the GPU cloud revolution?

‍Apply to become an Aethir Cloud Host today, or learn more about operational and profitability details in our comprehensive Cloud Host guide.