# The cloud tax: half of every dollar goes to cloud providers

- **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:** 00:06:44 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ-4uolkTeE&t=404s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-09-25-the-cloud-tax-half-of-every-dollar-goes-to-cloud-p-h7mb/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "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), 25 Sept 2024, 00:06:44. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ-4uolkTeE&t=404s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Citing an a16z (captioned "hor[owitz]") study of public-company S-1 filings; a recurring quantified claim in his talks.