# Cloud must be a public utility, and blockchain is the only structure for that

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-11-17
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - November 16th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:54:23 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zftMimmn2CY&t=3263s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-11-17-cloud-must-be-a-public-utility-and-blockchain-is-t-ekwo/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Cloud must be a public utility, and blockchain is the only structure for that," Akash Weekly - November 16th 2022 (Akash Network), 17 Nov 2022, 00:54:23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zftMimmn2CY&t=3263s

## Quote — verbatim

> Enterprise cloud works to a certain degree but it does not work the way it should work as a public utility. The cloud needs to be a public utility. The only data structure to enable a public utility is a blockchain.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering "why does a computing marketplace need to be web3?" — his recurring cloud-as-utility thesis.