# 85-95% of data center compute sits unused

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-04-09
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Interchain.fm Ep. 15 Akash: Taking on AWS with Decentralized Cloud Computing (Cosmos)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:10 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xlOVeUXd90&t=130s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-04-09-85-95-of-data-center-compute-sits-unused-a4v5/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "85-95% of data center compute sits unused," Interchain.fm Ep. 15 Akash: Taking on AWS with Decentralized Cloud Computing (Cosmos), 9 Apr 2021, 00:02:10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xlOVeUXd90&t=130s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The founding observation from Overclock Labs' Kubernetes deployments that led to the Akash marketplace idea in 2016.