# The cloud tax is creating a feudal society

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-03-19
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Decentralizing AI: Compute Protocols and Proof of Work - Panel Discussion \| Proof of Data 2024 (Recall Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:11 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUoePJrzyDQ&t=431s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-03-19-the-cloud-tax-is-creating-a-feudal-society-fxkf/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The cloud tax is creating a feudal society," Decentralizing AI: Compute Protocols and Proof of Work - Panel Discussion \| Proof of Data 2024 (Recall Network), 19 Mar 2024, 00:07:11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUoePJrzyDQ&t=431s

## Quote — verbatim

> What that is trending towards is a feudalistic society that we work so hard as a humanity to escape — few people with the resource that everyone needs have control over those resources and charge a tax. All of us pay a cloud tax without even realizing we are paying a cloud tax: an average 50% of all the income that online services make go to a cloud provider, and these providers are unelected companies with shareholders, profits... as a primary driver.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering why decentralized compute matters now; he adds that with hyperscalers as GPU gatekeepers, "try getting a GPU from Amazon — it's impossible."