The cloud tax: 50% of every online-service dollar
Greg Osuri - Democratizing Access to AI Resources - TOKEN2049 Singapore 2024 (TOKEN2049)
“The costs are getting out of control. Over 50% of every single penny we spend on online services goes to one of the three cloud providers. All of us pay a cloud tax without knowing who we [are] paying the tax to… even Department of Defense, which uses Palantir, clearly pays a cloud tax… Andreessen Horowitz did this study, it’s called the Trillion Dollar Paradox.” — 00:05:12
Context: Recurring quantified claim, here with the explicit a16z study name.