# Core thesis: spread compute; Akash hit 10 billion tokens a day

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2026-07-29
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** AI Data Centers Are Eating the Grid. Is There Another Way? (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:40:41 — https://www.buzzsprout.com/2440361/episodes/19568316-ai-data-centers-are-eating-the-grid-is-there-another-way
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2026-07-29-core-thesis-spread-compute-akash-hit-10-billion-to-k4hj/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Core thesis: spread compute; Akash hit 10 billion tokens a day," AI Data Centers Are Eating the Grid. Is There Another Way? (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast), 29 Jul 2026, 00:40:41. https://www.buzzsprout.com/2440361/episodes/19568316-ai-data-centers-are-eating-the-grid-is-there-another-way

## Quote — verbatim

> That's the core thesis of Akash Network is to, instead of concentrating this compute power in small places, let's spread across as much as possible. For that, just yesterday, we reached 10 billion tokens a day. That's quite a lot. It's more than some of the centralized players.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Milestone claim dated to the day before recording (~July 2026); "spread the prosperity and let people go figure out the best way to source compute and energy."