# 85-95% of compute is not being used

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-01-21
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Network, Cloud Computing on Blockchain (MikoBits Blockchain, NFT and DeFi Show)
- **Watch at:** 00:34:59 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRtkAUdqNFs&t=2099s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-01-21-85-95-of-compute-is-not-being-used-wwvl/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "85-95% of compute is not being used," Akash Network, Cloud Computing on Blockchain (MikoBits Blockchain, NFT and DeFi Show), 21 Jan 2021, 00:34:59. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRtkAUdqNFs&t=2099s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Origin story from 2015; the underutilization statistic is the foundational thesis behind Akash's supply model.