# The cloud tax: 50% of every online-service dollar

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-09-27
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri - Democratizing Access to AI Resources - TOKEN2049 Singapore 2024 (TOKEN2049)
- **Watch at:** 00:05:12 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sv3EOSDnL8&t=312s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-09-27-the-cloud-tax-50-of-every-online-service-dollar-s3nm/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The cloud tax: 50% of every online-service dollar," Greg Osuri - Democratizing Access to AI Resources - TOKEN2049 Singapore 2024 (TOKEN2049), 27 Sept 2024, 00:05:12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sv3EOSDnL8&t=312s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Recurring quantified claim, here with the explicit a16z study name.