# Akash is Airbnb, Amazon is Hilton — from Equinix racks to devices in the home

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-06-09
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Future of Web 3 and the Battle for Data Sovereignty with Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash Networks (Orchid Labs)
- **Watch at:** 00:12:48 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2AE257OCMA&t=768s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-06-09-akash-is-airbnb-amazon-is-hilton-from-equinix-rack-55lw/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash is Airbnb, Amazon is Hilton — from Equinix racks to devices in the home," Future of Web 3 and the Battle for Data Sovereignty with Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash Networks (Orchid Labs), 9 Jun 2021, 00:12:48. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2AE257OCMA&t=768s

## Quote — verbatim

> If Akash is Airbnb, Amazon is Hilton. Akash is a very versatile system, so much so that you can have both very mission critical infrastructure that's running on Equinix, which is the largest interconnected data center network in the world, to devices that can live in the home, with varying degrees of reliability.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His signature marketplace analogy; he goes on to cite 8.2M data centers, sub-10ms cell-tower colocation, underwater data centers, and future "data centers in space."