# Everyone pays an invisible cloud tax — 50% of online-service revenue goes to the cloud

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-06-18
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** "Greg Osuri \| Founder of Akash Network: Liberty, Community, and the Future of Decentralized AI" (Beacon Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:13:25 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greg-osuri-founder-of-akash-network-liberty/id1626302528?i=1000659451844
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-06-18-everyone-pays-an-invisible-cloud-tax-50-of-online-6evb/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "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), 18 Jun 2024, 00:13:25. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greg-osuri-founder-of-akash-network-liberty/id1626302528?i=1000659451844

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.