# Compute should be a public utility like air and water

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-09-25
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Compute: Past, Present, and Future by Akash Network founder Greg Osuri at deAI Summit 2024 (Pundi X Labs)
- **Watch at:** 00:11:05 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ-4uolkTeE&t=665s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-09-25-compute-should-be-a-public-utility-like-air-and-wa-nccv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Compute should be a public utility like air and water," Compute: Past, Present, and Future by Akash Network founder Greg Osuri at deAI Summit 2024 (Pundi X Labs), 25 Sept 2024, 00:11:05. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ-4uolkTeE&t=665s

## Quote — verbatim

> Imagine a world where computation is free and accessible as the air we breathe. We believe compute should be a public utility — like air, like water, like all the resources that we don't need to seek someone's permission to use.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Transition into the DePIN landscape slide; decentralized compute framed as "a return [to] the internet's founding principles."