# 5,000 providers in 5,000 locations — low-latency compute impossible on the cloud

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-07-14
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - July 13th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:52:04 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-CIXpfW13A&t=3124s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-07-14-5-000-providers-in-5-000-locations-low-latency-com-mpfd/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "5,000 providers in 5,000 locations — low-latency compute impossible on the cloud," Akash Weekly - July 13th 2022 (Akash Network), 14 Jul 2022, 00:52:04. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-CIXpfW13A&t=3124s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.