# 85% of data-center capacity is underutilized

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-03-24
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** AKASH NETWORK (AKT) - Decentralized clouds, Staking, Cosmos & more! - Interview with CEO Greg Osuri (Michaël van de Poppe)
- **Watch at:** 00:04:24 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY33CFNI-OE&t=264s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-03-24-85-of-data-center-capacity-is-underutilized-ohwl/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "85% of data-center capacity is underutilized," AKASH NETWORK (AKT) - Decentralized clouds, Staking, Cosmos & more! - Interview with CEO Greg Osuri (Michaël van de Poppe), 24 Mar 2021, 00:04:24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY33CFNI-OE&t=264s

## Quote — verbatim

> The customers running their own data centers are sitting on humongous underutilized resources — 85% or so of data center capacity that's deployed is underutilized, and we're talking about 8.2 million data centers.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The founding insight behind Akash, discovered while deploying Kubernetes-based solutions to enterprise customers at Overclock Labs.