Over 85% of data-center capacity is unused; any data center can become a cloud provider
DeFi Decoded - Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash on why DeFi needs a Decentralized Internet to succeed (Ninepoint Partners)
“As we’re deploying Kubernetes into different data centers, we notice enormous amounts of capacity in these data centers is not used — so when north of 85% of capacity is not used — and we built the technology to enable any data center to become a cloud provider.” — 00:07:02
Context: Greg’s founding story for Akash: the underutilization insight from deploying Kubernetes at Overclock Labs (2015-2017). He also claims “there are 8.4 million data centers in the world” and Amazon’s edge is only ease of access.