# Centralized control planes can't scale — the internet's decentralized roots are the answer

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-06-09
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Accelerate '24: Official Recap (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:05:08 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYeAVvuNLI&t=308s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-06-09-centralized-control-planes-can-t-scale-the-interne-uxvx/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Centralized control planes can't scale — the internet's decentralized roots are the answer," Akash Accelerate '24: Official Recap (Akash Network), 9 Jun 2024, 00:05:08. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYeAVvuNLI&t=308s

## Quote — verbatim

> We quickly realized that you cannot scale to any level of high performance using a centralized control plane. The only way to really massively scale is go back to the roots, how internet was founded — a decentralized network.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Keynote origin story: why Overclock pivoted from centralized cluster orchestration to blockchains (the "only data structure" enabling decentralized coordination) in 2016–2017.