The idea of a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) is legit fascinating. My good friend @jasonbadeaux explained it to me, and it blew my mind because it’s so simple yet the impact is profound. Instead of generating new electricity, a VPP coordinates existing "surplus" power sources from thousands of households, making them behave collectively like one large, unified power plant. Here's a simple example, imagine a future where every home has a battery bank: when the grid has surplus energy, batteries charge up, when the grid faces shortages, these batteries discharge, providing the necessary juice to maintain the grid. But here's the mind blowing part Jason showed me: "surplus" doesn’t only come from batteries. It also comes from simply choosing NOT to use power at a critical moment. If I decide not to run my 1kW washing machine during a heatwave that's threatening a grid shutdown, I've just provided a real, tangible surplus to the grid. And that surplus is valuable to power companies who would gladly pay for it at those critical moments. The profound implication: what if we could aggregate all these small decisions into a token-incentivized platform? That’s exactly what Jason's protocol, @daylightenergy_ is building. Daylight provides the incentives and intelligent orchestration to scale VPPs. Whether it's coordinating battery storage or smart sensors adjusting power consumption of devices like our Black Box running AI workloads, Daylight is setting the stage to be the defacto power orchestration platform of the future. With digital infrastructure moving closer to homes (as our Black Box exemplifies), the ability to intelligently manage edge power consumption becomes crucial. After all, if the grid shuts down, none of these systems matter. You can't run AI at the edge if you don't have electricity, so you need to balance the needs of AI against the needs of the grid. And by keeping the grid up, you can get rewarded for doing your part. The future of digital infrastructure hinges on reliable electricity. And in a world where energy demand only goes up, it's hard to imagine a future without tightly orchestrated VPPs powering the last mile. Lfg Daylight.