85% of the world's compute capacity sits underutilized
The Akash Mainnet 2 Livestream w/ Alessio Treglia, Jack Zampolin, Greg Osuri and Adam Bozanich (Akash Network)
“As we started deploying we discovered there’s a huge problem that happened to be underutilization of compute… around 85 percent of the compute capacity out there is underutilized.” — 00:09:15
Context: Greg’s origin story: companies provision data centers for peak load (Intuit tax season, Walmart holidays), leaving massive idle capacity — the supply side of Akash’s marketplace thesis. He also cites ~8.2 million data centers that could leverage Overclock’s software.