# Most global compute sits idle — bring it to market

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2018-03-16
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The Decentralized Future of Cloud Infrastructure (Outlyer)
- **Watch at:** 00:06:40 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUGjvs6IsrU&t=400s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2018-03-16-most-global-compute-sits-idle-bring-it-to-market-dg3c/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Most global compute sits idle — bring it to market," The Decentralized Future of Cloud Infrastructure (Outlyer), 16 Mar 2018, 00:06:40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUGjvs6IsrU&t=400s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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."