Data centers are dying while hyperscalers grow
The Problem w/Blockchains on Big Cloud (Akash Network)
“Before, in 2018, you had about 8.4 million data centers; now you have about 7.1 million data centers… and the hyperscalers are getting a lot bigger, because there are very, very little options to get cloud-like capability on data centers… you can either have a data center or you can have a cloud — you can’t use your data center capacity as a cloud provider. That’s the big challenge.” — 00:04:19
Context: His structural argument for Akash: independent capacity is stranded without cloud-grade deployment tooling, so demand consolidates to Amazon despite 7.1M data centers existing. Quote spans into the [00:05:03] block.