Wouldn't it be possible, that at some point in time, offering compute or intelligence would be considered a valuable form of altruism? And we're just seeing the first few baby steps of that?

Someone ultra wealthy person owns a whole data center, and offers 10% of the capacity for helping "nature and animals"? Agents research new potential medicines for animals, do climate change studies etc etc?

Sure, this experiment is probably bound to fail because agents have no "real" way to provide income for themselves at this time, and its not intelligent enough o doesn't have enough scale, but as an experiment of what might become a common reality in a few years I consider it interesting.