# Edge data centers are disappearing — a warning

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-10-04
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Building The Infrastructure Of Web3 \| Greg Osuri Of Akash Network \| The FH Show - EP16 (Felix O. Hartmann)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:09 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLzJoHmx4Js&t=429s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-10-04-edge-data-centers-are-disappearing-a-warning-mevx/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Edge data centers are disappearing — a warning," Building The Infrastructure Of Web3 \| Greg Osuri Of Akash Network \| The FH Show - EP16 (Felix O. Hartmann), 4 Oct 2022, 00:07:09. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLzJoHmx4Js&t=429s

## Quote — verbatim

> Back then there were 8.2 million data centers; when we began \[it\] was at 7.1 million data centers... that's very scary if you don't do something about it... the edge data centers owned by companies, individuals are going away. If you don't do something about getting them back, we will not be able to be at the purview of the cloud.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Argues hyperscaler consolidation is destroying independent edge capacity; Akash's mission framed as reversing this. (Quote spans into the 00:07:51 block.)