# Only Akash can enable compute futures, because its data is open

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-04-24
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly: Introducing new VP of Engineering, Chanda Dharap (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:16:31 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXOJlsI_CX0&t=991s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-04-24-only-akash-can-enable-compute-futures-because-its-jzul/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Only Akash can enable compute futures, because its data is open," Akash Weekly: Introducing new VP of Engineering, Chanda Dharap (Akash Network), 24 Apr 2022, 00:16:31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXOJlsI_CX0&t=991s

## Quote — verbatim

> We always talked about pricing, an open model enabling or unlocking futures for cloud... Akash is the only cloud network or platform that can do futures. You cannot do futures on Amazon because the data is not open. You need the data to be open, so we have an advantage.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Greg's answer on what he'll focus on now that Chanda handles execution: revisiting Akash economics (designed ~2020) and pricing models impossible on centralized clouds.