# Cloud is a public utility — people first, not shareholders

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-10-28
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** 1on1 Greg Osuri - Akash (Jerry V Hall)
- **Watch at:** 00:16:13 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubYh3RfdQHA&t=973s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-10-28-cloud-is-a-public-utility-people-first-not-shareho-awj7/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Cloud is a public utility — people first, not shareholders," 1on1 Greg Osuri - Akash (Jerry V Hall), 28 Oct 2023, 00:16:13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubYh3RfdQHA&t=973s

## Quote — verbatim

> A corporation is going to optimize for corporation; community is going to optimize for \[community\]. That's why decentralization leads to communal public utilities... if you consider cloud to be a public utility... it is very, very important that it is decentralized.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The promise of decentralized networks is reversing hyper-centralization by giving cloud users ownership and equity; cites Akash being 70-80% cheaper with chips unavailable on the cloud.