Akash incentives can sustain 1,000–1,500 idle A100s
Building the Super Cloud of GPUs with Akash Founder Greg Osuri | EP #102 (Frictionless Podcast by Logan Jastremski)
“For Akash, at the current linear modeling we did, [we] can support up to an excess of 1,000 or 1,500 A100s that’s unused at any given time.” — 00:33:10
Context: Incentive design: subsidize excess supply (not current supply) to guarantee availability and push prices down; contrasts with Helium’s 300k low-demand nodes and Filecoin’s ~1% utilization.