# Cloud should be as free as air and water

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-10-18
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Sovereign AI's Battlefield: Compute, Storage, & Running On The Edge \| Crypto x AI Event (Delphi Digital)
- **Watch at:** 00:38:17 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mODQ86rJws8&t=2297s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-10-18-cloud-should-be-as-free-as-air-and-water-sbze/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Cloud should be as free as air and water," Sovereign AI's Battlefield: Compute, Storage, & Running On The Edge \| Crypto x AI Event (Delphi Digital), 18 Oct 2024, 00:38:17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mODQ86rJws8&t=2297s

## Quote — verbatim

> Cloud, which is perhaps the most important fabric that holds a modern society together, and a very important public utility, should be as free as the air we breathe and the water we drink, and the access to which should not be gated. That was the whole premise of starting Akash.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His founding vision statement when asked why he focused on this problem; frames cloud as a public utility.