# 85% of data-center compute sits unused

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-04-24
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly: Chia (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:04:24 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVwZr7s92f8&t=264s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-04-24-85-of-data-center-compute-sits-unused-ega5/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "85% of data-center compute sits unused," Akash Weekly: Chia (Akash Network), 24 Apr 2022, 00:04:24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVwZr7s92f8&t=264s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Origin story from his multi-cloud Kubernetes work at Overclock Labs (2015-2017); the founding statistic behind Akash's marketplace thesis.