# Data gravity is a pricing problem, not a technological one

- **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:** 00:08:38 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQUKoM_1ME&t=518s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-08-04-data-gravity-is-a-pricing-problem-not-a-technologi-vfbn/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Data gravity is a pricing problem, not a technological one," Akash Network Is The Airbnb Of Cloud (TFiR), 4 Aug 2021, 00:08:38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQUKoM_1ME&t=518s

## Quote — verbatim

> The data gravity problem is not a technological problem, it is a pricing problem... the root of that problem is the egress costs... they want your data to stay in the cloud.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On vendor lock-in; says Akash is designing a bandwidth marketplace with Equinix (its largest provider at the time) to price data transfer equitably ([00:09:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQUKoM_1ME&t=559s)).