# Over 85% of data-center capacity is unused; any data center can become a cloud provider

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-12-15
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** DeFi Decoded - Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash on why DeFi needs a Decentralized Internet to succeed (Ninepoint Partners)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:02 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pEWlQnQ_8Q&t=422s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-12-15-over-85-of-data-center-capacity-is-unused-any-data-hnnu/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "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), 15 Dec 2021, 00:07:02. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pEWlQnQ_8Q&t=422s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.