# Akash as a new operating system for the internet tapping 85% unused capacity

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2019-08-06
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Overcoming the Challenges of Distributed Networks with Greg Osuri CEO Overclock Labs & Akash Network (Techpost)
- **Watch at:** 00:03:02 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKvrKWdc9OA&t=182s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2019-08-06-akash-as-a-new-operating-system-for-the-internet-t-27bo/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash as a new operating system for the internet tapping 85% unused capacity," Overcoming the Challenges of Distributed Networks with Greg Osuri CEO Overclock Labs & Akash Network (Techpost), 6 Aug 2019, 00:03:02. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKvrKWdc9OA&t=182s

## Quote — verbatim

> We believe the foundation should be scalable, frictionless and free of censorship, and we believe in the unstoppable web. What we're doing with Akash is essentially creating a new operating system for the Internet, and how we're doing that is by tapping into unused 85% capacity.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Opening pitch; he completes the figure in the next breath — "in 8.2 million data centers" — describing Akash as a peer-to-peer network for "planetary scale applications."