Everyone pays an invisible cloud tax — 50% of online-service revenue goes to the cloud
"Greg Osuri | Founder of Akash Network: Liberty, Community, and the Future of Decentralized AI" (Beacon Podcast)
“Cloud infrastructure, which arguably is one of the most important layers that holds humanity together… It is an invisible layer that we don’t talk about much. I mean, all of us pay a cloud tax. 50% of all the monies we pay to an online service goes to a cloud.” — 00:13:25
Context: His recurring “cloud tax” argument, here with an unusually high 50% figure (elsewhere he has cited lower numbers); leads into why an open-source cloud is needed.