The cloud tax: half of every dollar goes to cloud providers
Compute: Past, Present, and Future by Akash Network founder Greg Osuri at deAI Summit (Pundi AI)
“Today if you use an online service, 50% of every penny you pay goes to one [of] the cloud providers… All of us, no matter what sector we are in, half of every dollar we spend goes to an invisible layer — or the cloud tax, we call it.” — 00:06:44
Context: Citing an a16z study of public-company S-1 filings (Asana 63%, Palantir ~40%).