# Akash: the world's first decentralized supercloud, targeting the true price of compute

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-12-01
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Dcentral 2022 - DeCloud - Decentralized Cloud & Storage (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:11 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlflVLgYjI&t=131s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-12-01-akash-the-world-s-first-decentralized-supercloud-t-slxj/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash: the world's first decentralized supercloud, targeting the true price of compute," Dcentral 2022 - DeCloud - Decentralized Cloud & Storage (Akash Network), 1 Dec 2022, 00:02:11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlflVLgYjI&t=131s

## Quote — verbatim

> We created Akash Network. Akash is the world's first decentralized super cloud... a marketplace where one can acquire unused capacity... The goal really is to decentralize cloud deployment... avoid vendor lock-in and be able to leverage the most optimal pricing, and do so in a censorship-resistant and open setting.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Panel intro; he adds Akash serves ~25-30% of the Cosmos ecosystem, is moving into ML with much cheaper GPUs, and aims "to get to true price of computing" and solve growing censorship attacks.