Anything that would currently use AWS spot instances. Amazon created it, so we can assume there&#x27;s a market for &quot;cheaper, but lower availability&quot;. Google has something similar <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;preemptible-vms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;preemptible-vms&#x2F;</a><p>&gt;I like your example of the power grid as an explanation for how owners of small amounts of computing power might interact with the larger system and have an impact on market prices. But if the analogy truly holds, it would be a good indication of how negligible rewards would be to smaller entities (individuals running computers or smartphones).<p>I&#x27;m not thinking of individuals making a living off of their one computer. But surely there&#x27;s a significant amount of computing power in datacenters that goes unused, or not optimally used. Now, they could manually partner with other datacenters to absorb excess capacity, and bargain a price individually. But if grid computing becomes a thing, all they&#x27;d have to do is hook up a bidder to their excess capacity.<p>Admittedly, focusing on high capacity entities makes it harder to see micropayments as helpful. Even if the minimum transfer amount was $100, it would still be worth it for datacenter operators to trade on such a market.