85-95% of compute is not being used
Akash Network, Cloud Computing on Blockchain (MikoBits Blockchain, NFT and DeFi Show)
“We began the company as an edge computing platform… that’s when we discovered this is a massive opportunity of unused compute. When we were actually deploying this platform we noticed 85% or so of the compute is not being used — that’s our conservative estimate. Some of our estimates are actually like 95% of the compute is not being used.” — 00:34:59
Context: Origin story from 2015; the underutilization statistic is the foundational thesis behind Akash’s supply model.