# 85-95% of data-center compute sits unused

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-08-04
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Network Is The Airbnb Of Cloud (TFiR)
- **Watch at:** 00:00:46 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQUKoM_1ME&t=46s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-08-04-85-95-of-data-center-compute-sits-unused-d6ag/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "85-95% of data-center compute sits unused," Akash Network Is The Airbnb Of Cloud (TFiR), 4 Aug 2021, 00:00:46. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQUKoM_1ME&t=46s

## Quote — verbatim

> While the demand is there, we have enormous supply that's being unlocked in data centers, because turns out 85 to 95 percent of the compute in data centers remain unused... you normally plan for peak and you always want to keep peak capacity.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The founding thesis: Akash unlocks locked-up capacity into "the first open source, peer-to-peer, permissionless, self-sovereign cloud" priced by the market instead of institutions.