# Society pays an invisible "cloud tax" of 50%

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-11-25
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri \| Trump's impact on crypto x AI, why DePIN is inevitable, and Akash Network revenue ATH's (Proof of Coverage Media)
- **Watch at:** 00:32:27 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp_LL6tPDFU&t=1947s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-11-25-society-pays-an-invisible-cloud-tax-of-50-wiw5/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Society pays an invisible "cloud tax" of 50%," Greg Osuri \| Trump's impact on crypto x AI, why DePIN is inevitable, and Akash Network revenue ATH's (Proof of Coverage Media), 25 Nov 2024, 00:32:27. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp_LL6tPDFU&t=1947s

## Quote — verbatim

> We all, all of us as a society, pay something like cloud tax without even realizing we're paying it... 50% of every single penny you pay for online services goes to \[a\] cloud provider that is not elected, that's not selected, that is there because the users really don't have too much options.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering how Akash fits the AI supply chain; recurring cloud-as-invisible-monopoly argument.