85% of data-center capacity is unused; Equinix is the largest supplier
Updates From the Lab 1/5/22 W/Akash (Osmosis)
“Equinix happened to be the biggest supplier… they offloaded, I believe, like ten percent of their underutilized supply… it’s about 85 [percent] or so [of] computing capacity in data centers [that] are not used. For them, if they don’t offload the capacity, it’s useless… essentially Akash becomes like the spot market for the globe.” — 00:53:12
Context: Answering a Regen Network member’s question about who the ~79 providers are and why Akash can undercut AWS. Spot-market line at 00:54:40.