# Cloud is modern society's fabric, 80% controlled by four companies

- **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:** 00:29:45 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci_r_fOVT04&t=1785s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-05-17-cloud-is-modern-society-s-fabric-80-controlled-by-wqz5/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Cloud is modern society's fabric, 80% controlled by four companies," Mission: DeFi EP 98 - Can Akash be a major player in AI with their GPU market? Founder Greg Osuri (Mission: DeFi), 17 May 2023, 00:29:45. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci_r_fOVT04&t=1785s

## Quote — verbatim

> The whole point of Akash is to remove the heavy concentration of power... compute cloud today is a fabric of modern society — our data, your data, everything runs \[on it\] and there's no going back... the concentrated compute power: Amazon, Google, Microsoft control over 80% of the market today.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering whether Akash's role is to decentralize access to GPU power; same riff opens the episode as the cold-open clip. He adds startups can't get 10 H100s at $3/hr on AWS or GCP without ~$3M commitments.