5,000 providers in 5,000 locations — low-latency compute impossible on the cloud
Akash Weekly - July 13th 2022 (Akash Network)
“We have about [4]50 providers. So you can imagine a world where we are gonna have 5,000 providers — that means 5,000 different locations, right? Not very far away… high performance computing that is globally distributed can be delivered… within a very low network latency. And this is a very unique offering, only off Akash… this is impossible on the cloud.” — 00:52:04
Context: Edge/geo-distribution thesis: provider growth turns Akash into a globally distributed HPC fabric centralized clouds can’t match. Caption says “50 providers” here but Greg reported ~450 active providers earlier at 00:29:14.