# Compute should be a public utility, "as free as the air we breathe"

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-12-06
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash's Greg Osuri on the Future of Cloud Computing \| Mainnet 2024 (Messari)
- **Watch at:** 00:10:14 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKDw4KZ23G4&t=614s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-12-06-compute-should-be-a-public-utility-as-free-as-the-ynyz/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Compute should be a public utility, "as free as the air we breathe"," Akash's Greg Osuri on the Future of Cloud Computing \| Mainnet 2024 (Messari), 6 Dec 2024, 00:10:14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKDw4KZ23G4&t=614s

## Quote — verbatim

> Compute should be a public utility. Compute should be as free as the air we breathe and water we drink, so that innovators everywhere, from every corner of the globe, have the tools to build and create and transform without barrier... It's very important that we return to sovereignty — control over what gets built, control over what goes and touches our daily lives.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His positive thesis after the feudalism warning; decentralized computing as a return to the internet's 1969 founding principle.