# Saving money on cloud is a fallacy — repatriation is real

- **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:** 00:06:28 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQUKoM_1ME&t=388s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-08-04-saving-money-on-cloud-is-a-fallacy-repatriation-is-5o6p/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Saving money on cloud is a fallacy — repatriation is real," Akash Network Is The Airbnb Of Cloud (TFiR), 4 Aug 2021, 00:06:28. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQUKoM_1ME&t=388s

## Quote — verbatim

> The whole thing about you saving money on a cloud is a fallacy... it's a trend now, there's a repatriation of data centers: any high-growth Silicon Valley company like Dropbox or Snapchat, they're actually moving back to data centers for a reason.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Responding to the host's point that you need to be a mathematician to compute cloud pricing; Akash's answer is monetizing underutilized capacity with "sovereignty on both your performance as well as your cost."