# The future is bringing back your own data center, offset by Akash

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-09-29
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - September 28th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:08:40 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhs18DcjSKo&t=520s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-09-29-the-future-is-bringing-back-your-own-data-center-o-e4jt/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The future is bringing back your own data center, offset by Akash," Akash Weekly - September 28th 2022 (Akash Network), 29 Sept 2022, 00:08:40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhs18DcjSKo&t=520s

## Quote — verbatim

> Having their own data center, even though it may be expensive in the short term, actually is good in the long term... bringing back your data center is really where the future belongs. Akash can help you offset some of the costs... instead of needing 100 servers a company can have 80 or 70 servers and offload that unused capacity on the Akash Network, earn tokens, and use their tokens back when they want to scale.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Argues companies like Intuit or Walmart are realizing cloud is no longer the best cost optimizer; predicts repatriation plus marketplace monetization of idle capacity.