Ask HN: cloud supercomputing for the masses

This is more of a brainstorming question than anything. Extremely curious what you all think about this concept. This was inspired by jasonlbaptiste's post on turning excel tools into saad offerings.

So my question is do you think there could be a consumer demand for spot queries against large scale datasets. I.e. A realtor wants to know the number of houses for sale in the us to war veterans between the ages of x and y during the lat 15 years.

This idea came to me after reading about a sports betting database on espn magazine that was selling for 15k a pop.

So could you guys see applications for letting average users run queries cheaply against a giant cloud/grid computing tool?