8.4 million data centers, mostly idle
RNDR, Supercloud, 1.5T AI Market Cap – Interview with Greg Osuri about Akash (Design DAO)
“Most data centers — there are about 8.4 million data centers in the world — most data centers are not used to the point they’re supposed to be used: 85 percent of time they’re unused. If we can leverage the supercloud and connect these data centers and actually get a price point that’s significantly lower than what you would otherwise pay to these hyperscalers… that’s what we’re seeing with Akash.” — 00:16:28
Context: His recurring utilization argument; he adds it’s “no longer just cheap cloud, it’s about access” to GPUs that cloud providers selectively allocate.