# The invisible cloud tax on every online service

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-10-24
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The Supercloud - by Greg Osuri, Akash (Cosmoverse)
- **Watch at:** 00:05:13 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmEVbRTw_5k&t=313s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-10-24-the-invisible-cloud-tax-on-every-online-service-3mtm/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The invisible cloud tax on every online service," The Supercloud - by Greg Osuri, Akash (Cosmoverse), 24 Oct 2024, 00:05:13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmEVbRTw_5k&t=313s

## Quote — verbatim

> Andreessen Horowitz did this study: half of every penny you spend on online services goes to a cloud provider — in some cases like Asana, where over 63% of all the fees you pay to the cloud service goes to a cloud provider. In a way, we're paying this invisible tax, the society, all of us together — we don't even realize we're paying this invisible tax.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Recurring quantified claim; followed by the CrowdStrike outage as evidence of centralized fragility.