# Distributed data centers need a decentralized connective layer

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-10-24
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** AI Made in Cosmos - with Greg Osuri, Murthy Vitwit, Valery Litvin & Dean Tribble (Cosmoverse)
- **Watch at:** 00:13:05 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHQnZEaMEHU&t=785s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-10-24-distributed-data-centers-need-a-decentralized-conn-kdbm/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Distributed data centers need a decentralized connective layer," AI Made in Cosmos - with Greg Osuri, Murthy Vitwit, Valery Litvin & Dean Tribble (Cosmoverse), 24 Oct 2024, 00:13:05. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHQnZEaMEHU&t=785s

## Quote — verbatim

> Now there's enormous amounts of compute spread across hundreds and hundreds of data centers across the world... that really brings about the need for a layer to connect these distributed data centers, and that layer cannot be centralized. I think that's critical for this layer to be decentralized, and Akash is one of the decentralized networks, if not the leading decentralized network, that's connecting these distributed data centers.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Since the GPU crunch, Nvidia allocates smaller quantities (<5,000 units) to many players rather than lots to one, dispersing global compute.