# 85% of the world's compute capacity sits underutilized

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-03-05
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The Akash Mainnet 2 Livestream w/ Alessio Treglia, Jack Zampolin, Greg Osuri and Adam Bozanich (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:09:15 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAOqIm4Mfu8&t=555s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-03-05-85-of-the-world-s-compute-capacity-sits-underutili-tfvy/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "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), 5 Mar 2021, 00:09:15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAOqIm4Mfu8&t=555s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.