# Data centers are dying while hyperscalers grow

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-11-11
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The Problem w/Blockchains on Big Cloud (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:04:19 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YasgYOQtxR0&t=259s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-11-11-data-centers-are-dying-while-hyperscalers-grow-7bph/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Data centers are dying while hyperscalers grow," The Problem w/Blockchains on Big Cloud (Akash Network), 11 Nov 2022, 00:04:19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YasgYOQtxR0&t=259s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.