# Hyperscalers should offload compute onto Akash

- **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:** 00:35:54 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY33CFNI-OE&t=2154s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-03-24-hyperscalers-should-offload-compute-onto-akash-wnzf/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Hyperscalers should offload compute onto Akash," AKASH NETWORK (AKT) - Decentralized clouds, Staking, Cosmos & more! - Interview with CEO Greg Osuri (Michaël van de Poppe), 24 Mar 2021, 00:35:54. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY33CFNI-OE&t=2154s

## Quote — verbatim

> You don't see them as competition, you see them as complement... it's actually better for these centralized cloud providers — Amazons and Googles and Microsofts — to use Akash to offload compute. In fact... we've seen some amazing interest in a lot of the big guys.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Akash as "the cloud of clouds" (Akash = Sanskrit for sky, "where the clouds are formed"); Equinix — ~220 data centers in ~25 countries, supplier to the hyperscalers — had just become a provider.