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Jul 18

Need cash? Forget plasma, and donate CPU time instead.

Do you sleep? Have a laptop or desktop that sits idle during those eight hours? Need an extra $10 a month? If so, startup CPUsage has a proposition that you should hear. The eight-month-old startup wants to pay folks so it can harness their idle compute time to sell to corporations.

Sounds like a brilliant idea. That is, until I read that the average donor coughing up four hours of daily CPU rental will fetch the tidy sum of maybe $10. A month.

Does that even cover the electricity used for donating?

About Dan McDonough, Jr.

Dan used to be chief executive of elauwit. Now he's just another dude. Check him out on twitter at www.twitter.com/danmcdonough or on linkedin at www.linkedin.com/in/danmcdonoughjr.

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