85% of data-center compute sits unused
Akash Weekly: Chia (Akash Network)
“As we were deploying the solution to different customers that own data centers, we realized most compute in these data centers was not used — 85 [percent] or so — and that’s when the idea to create a spot market for compute came about.” — 00:04:24
Context: Origin story from his multi-cloud Kubernetes work at Overclock Labs (2015-2017); the founding statistic behind Akash’s marketplace thesis.