# The cloud of the future is a planet-wide mesh, not a place

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-07-01
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Accelerate 2025 - Greg Osuri Keynote (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:10:11 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BIIiQquYFI&t=611s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2025-07-01-the-cloud-of-the-future-is-a-planet-wide-mesh-not-scgx/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The cloud of the future is a planet-wide mesh, not a place," Akash Accelerate 2025 - Greg Osuri Keynote (Akash Network), 1 Jul 2025, 00:10:11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BIIiQquYFI&t=611s

## Quote — verbatim

> They don't have to live in one facility. They can live everywhere — distributed across regions, climates, and use cases. This is hyperscale rebuilt from the ground up to be permissionless, flexible, and resilient. The cloud of the future isn't a place. It's a planet-wide mesh of compute, and Star Cluster is how we build it.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

After the math that a 1 GW AI cloud needs ~8,300 GB200 NVL72 racks (~120 kW each) which need not be co-located.