85-95% of data center compute sits unused
Interchain.fm Ep. 15 Akash: Taking on AWS with Decentralized Cloud Computing (Cosmos)
“Around eighty-five percent or so of compute that sits in this data centers remain unused, in some cases even ninety-five percent… the reason for that is planning for peak.” — 00:02:10
Context: The founding observation from Overclock Labs’ Kubernetes deployments that led to the Akash marketplace idea in 2016.