# Everyone pays an invisible cloud tax

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-10-26
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** How Akash Network is Democratizing Access to Cloud GPUs \| Greg Osuri (0xResearch)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:11 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRA0yN28Dw8&t=131s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-10-26-everyone-pays-an-invisible-cloud-tax-trvs/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Everyone pays an invisible cloud tax," How Akash Network is Democratizing Access to Cloud GPUs \| Greg Osuri (0xResearch), 26 Oct 2023, 00:02:11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRA0yN28Dw8&t=131s

## Quote — verbatim

> All of us pay a cloud tax — you and me, we just don't realize it. For context, next \[nearly\] 50% of all the subscription fees you pay for online services goes to one of the cloud providers, you just don't know it.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His recurring opening argument: cloud is an oligopoly — "an extremely important layer that is extremely opaque" — and Akash's mission is to reverse that opacity.