# Airbnb for cloud compute — 95% of data center capacity sits unused

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-07-01
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** WCEF 2022: Infrastructure for the New Internet - Web3 (World Crypto Economic Forum (WCEF))
- **Watch at:** 00:07:52 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RlL9feMiNk&t=472s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-07-01-airbnb-for-cloud-compute-95-of-data-center-capacit-urbb/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Airbnb for cloud compute — 95% of data center capacity sits unused," WCEF 2022: Infrastructure for the New Internet - Web3 (World Crypto Economic Forum (WCEF)), 1 Jul 2022, 00:07:52. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RlL9feMiNk&t=472s

## Quote — verbatim

> Akash was founded about four years ago with an idea of creating an Airbnb for cloud compute. What that means is there's enormous amount of cloud-grade compute sitting in data centers across the world that is underutilized — about 95% of which is not used — and on the other hand we have this crazy demand for cloud with prices only going up.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His panel introduction; adds Akash is "one of the fastest growing clouds in the world" at 25M total gigabyte-hours, 3.5M in the last month.