Most global compute sits idle — bring it to market
The Decentralized Future of Cloud Infrastructure (Outlyer)
“If you have capacity — data centers that are being utilized only 15 percent of the time — the majority [of] the global compute power is sitting there… Why don’t we bring that capacity to the market? This is fundamentally wrong.” — 00:06:40
Context: The underutilization thesis behind the Akash marketplace, stated in 2018 (captions garble the figures); followed by the Industrial Revolution vertical-monopoly comparison and “the future of computing is at risk when three companies control the industry.”