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 2024 (Pundi X Labs)
“Today if you use an online service, 50% of every penny you pay goes to one [of] the cloud providers… Look at companies like Asana, where 63% of the fees actually goes to one of the cloud providers; companies like Palantir… about close to 40% goes to a cloud provider. 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 (captioned “hor[owitz]”) study of public-company S-1 filings; a recurring quantified claim in his talks.