# Centralized systems will absolutely fail at this scale

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-05-17
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Mission: DeFi EP 98 - Can Akash be a major player in AI with their GPU market? Founder Greg Osuri (Mission: DeFi)
- **Watch at:** 00:40:28 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci_r_fOVT04&t=2428s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-05-17-centralized-systems-will-absolutely-fail-at-this-s-yeuo/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Centralized systems will absolutely fail at this scale," Mission: DeFi EP 98 - Can Akash be a major player in AI with their GPU market? Founder Greg Osuri (Mission: DeFi), 17 May 2023, 00:40:28. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci_r_fOVT04&t=2428s

## Quote — verbatim

> That's the kind of future that we're looking at, and it's only possible for a decentralized system, because centralized systems will absolutely fail. There's no way, at the scale which we talked about, a centralized system can function... it has to be decentralized from the get-go — the core has to be decentralized.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Concluding the home/grid compute vision; his argument for why the sharing layer must be decentralized from day one rather than retrofitted.