NEW YORK – October 28, 2026 -- Lektra, Inc. began taking orders for EdgeStart, a self-contained 8-GPU NVIDIA server cabinet priced from $310,197, under a model in which the company pays building owners 80 percent of the revenue from AI computing sold on their premises.
Lektra installs the cabinet, operates it remotely and sells its capacity to AI customers for inference and other GPU workloads through Lektra Cloud. Targets include commercial and industrial building owners, solar and storage sites, and energy developers that have underused space and existing solar arrays or batteries.
Two EdgeStart models carry installed prices of $310,197 and $840,951
The EdgeStart RTX uses eight NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs and draws about 7 kW at peak. Lektra estimates owner earnings of about $9,700 a month in the first year.
The EdgeStart B300 uses eight NVIDIA B300 GPUs at $840,951 and draws about 14.5 kW at peak. Estimated owner earnings are about $36,950 a month. Prices cover installed hardware and shipping.
Each cabinet also contains an online UPS, a metered power distribution unit, a firewall and a switch. A live dashboard tracks usage, energy and earnings, while Lektra handles customers, billing, monitoring and support.
Blue Street Capital financing sets monthly payments at about $6,200 and $16,700
Owners can pay cash or finance through Blue Street Capital at 9 percent over 48 months with 20 percent down, subject to credit approval. Estimated monthly payments are about $6,200 for the RTX and about $16,700 for the B300, below Lektra's estimated monthly earnings for each model.
The earnings estimates assume 730 contracted hours a month at current market rates, the 80 percent owner share, power at $0.10 per kilowatt-hour, and the cost of fiber and data storage. Lektra's release states that the illustrative revenue figures are not guaranteed earnings or investment returns, and that results depend on market demand, GPU utilization, electricity costs and equipment availability.
Lektra targets solar exporters earning only a few cents per kilowatt-hour
Lektra says utility tariffs and interconnection rules in some markets mean exported solar earns only a few cents per kilowatt-hour. It pitches EdgeStart as an alternative use for surplus generation.
The company also contrasts the model with large centralized data centers, which it says can take years to develop because of construction, permitting, land acquisition and utility coordination. Community concerns over electricity rates, water use, land use and grid capacity add further hurdles, according to Lektra.
"AI infrastructure doesn't have to be concentrated behind the walls of a massive data center," said Karl Andersen, Lektra's founder and CEO.
EdgeStart anchors an EdgeScale suite that already runs at eight sites
EdgeStart is the entry point to Lektra's EdgeScale product suite, which also includes Edge Pro for larger commercial deployments and Edge Max for multi-megawatt installations. EdgeScale data centers, which operate at 20 MW or less, are deployed at eight sites today.
Lektra calls participating owners energy hosts. A host begins with a site assessment, then an engineering review and an earnings model, before buying the system. Lektra then installs, tests and brings it online. Owners can start with one cabinet and add more. Initial configurations support select NVIDIA GPU architectures, with additional hardware options and deployment configurations planned.