# Cloud is a public utility that must be taken back from oligopolies

- **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:** 00:14:13 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQUKoM_1ME&t=853s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-08-04-cloud-is-a-public-utility-that-must-be-taken-back-6hn2/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Cloud is a public utility that must be taken back from oligopolies," Akash Network Is The Airbnb Of Cloud (TFiR), 4 Aug 2021, 00:14:13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQUKoM_1ME&t=853s

## Quote — verbatim

> If we look at cloud as a public infrastructure, a public utility, we don't have anywhere close the level of scrutiny the other public utilities like power or water has... when we recognize cloud is important, it's important to take back the cloud from oligopolies, for lack of a better word.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Citing Cloudflare/Amazon outages caused by unscrutinized misconfigurations; decentralization brings the public oversight a mission-critical utility deserves. Quote spans into [00:14:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQUKoM_1ME&t=898s). An early energy-utility analogy for compute.