# \~85% of data-center compute sits unused

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-01-10
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash (40%+ staking APY) is taking over the $Bn Cloud Computing Market by AWS? Greg Osuri EXCLUSIVE (Digital Asset Yield Summit)
- **Watch at:** 00:24:16 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOnFXB7L0DY&t=1456s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-01-10-85-of-data-center-compute-sits-unused-a4j5/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "\~85% of data-center compute sits unused," Akash (40%+ staking APY) is taking over the $Bn Cloud Computing Market by AWS? Greg Osuri EXCLUSIVE (Digital Asset Yield Summit), 10 Jan 2022, 00:24:16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOnFXB7L0DY&t=1456s

## Quote — verbatim

> We notice most compute in data centers, around 85 or so \[percent\] of compute in data centers, is not used. So that's when the idea for a marketplace came about.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Recurring founding claim behind Akash's supply thesis; he repeats it later citing "about 8.2 million data centers in the world" with ~85% unused ([01:29:59]).