85% of server capacity sits unused
E04 - Decentralizing the Cloud with Greg Osuri (HackerNoon)
“85% of server capacity sitting in corporate data centers remains unused. An extreme example: Intuit, the company behind TurboTax — on a tax day they run at 97 percent utilization; come next day it drops… nine months of the year they run at almost three percent utilization… on one hand you have this massive scalability problem, on the other hand you have this massive [unused] supply.” — 00:05:49
Context: The supply-side statistic he would repeat for years; leads into “we can effectively create a system where there is no middleman [and] effectively turn every company with capacity into a cloud provider, walking the same path Amazon took” [00:06:31].