# Cloud should be priced like a utility β€” by a free market, not the state - **Speaker:** Greg Osuri - **Attribution:** attributed - **Said:** 2026-04-11 - **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization β€” https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/ - **Source:** πŸ”΄LIVE: WLFI In Trouble? Winter Is Over. Brian Armstrong Pushing DC HARD, FTDA then Lighter & Akash (The Rollup) - **Watch at:** 02:21:38 β€” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJunRCzatkE&t=8498s - **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2026-04-11-cloud-should-be-priced-like-a-utility-by-a-free-ma-ffyw/ - **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Cloud should be priced like a utility β€” by a free market, not the state," πŸ”΄LIVE: WLFI In Trouble? Winter Is Over. Brian Armstrong Pushing DC HARD, FTDA then Lighter & Akash (The Rollup), 11 Apr 2026, 02:21:38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJunRCzatkE&t=8498s ## Quote β€” verbatim > We have fair pricing and transparent pricing for electricity and water and all the commodities that we use and depend on β€” why not have the same mechanism for the cloud? And we don't want a state actor to enforce that, but rather a free market to enforce it. That's the thesis of decentralized compute. ## Context β€” site annotation, not spoken His recurring "cloud as commodity/utility" argument, here framed as the middle layer of the decentralized-AI stack.