# 85% of data-center compute is unused

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-02-16
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Interview with Greg Osuri of Akash Network (Web3 Working Group)
- **Watch at:** 00:12:57 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFnp7eUw3M&t=777s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-02-16-85-of-data-center-compute-is-unused-fetf/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "85% of data-center compute is unused," Interview with Greg Osuri of Akash Network (Web3 Working Group), 16 Feb 2023, 00:12:57. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFnp7eUw3M&t=777s

## Quote — verbatim

> As we're deploying our software to a lot of these data centers, we discovered most of the compute is not used — like 85% of the time a data center is not used.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The pre-blockchain (2015) discovery that seeded the Akash marketplace idea.