# Akash is the Airbnb layer for cloud capacity

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-06-03
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** AI is using chips faster than Nvidia can make them. How crypto is helping \| Akash and Render Token (Coinage)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:55 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH9vbSk1QNk&t=175s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-06-03-akash-is-the-airbnb-layer-for-cloud-capacity-izwr/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash is the Airbnb layer for cloud capacity," AI is using chips faster than Nvidia can make them. How crypto is helping \| Akash and Render Token (Coinage), 3 Jun 2023, 00:02:55. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH9vbSk1QNk&t=175s

## Quote — verbatim

> Because Airbnb is a network that connects unused space and offers a price point that \[is more\] attractive, so Akash is that sort of layer that is very similar to Airbnb for developers that host cloud data.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering the segment's "Airbnb for computing power" framing of data centers as hotels.