# 500 US data centers are sitting ducks in a conflict

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-07-31
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:38:23 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2025-07-31-500-us-data-centers-are-sitting-ducks-in-a-conflic-p7mv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "500 US data centers are sitting ducks in a conflict," Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast), 31 Jul 2025, 00:38:23. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134

## Quote — verbatim

> In case of a national conflict tomorrow, international conflict, what do you think is going to get targeted? These little sitting ducks, large targets... These are massive data centers. We all know where they are. There are about 500 of them in America... When someone takes out your infrastructure, they're going to target this infrastructure.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Follows "the more you study about the grid, the more prepper you become... the more you realize how fragile we are" [00:36:50], citing the Texas freeze; decentralization removes fragility the way Bitcoin's design does [00:39:12].