# Akash incentives can sustain 1,000–1,500 idle A100s

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-09-28
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Building the Super Cloud of GPUs with Akash Founder Greg Osuri \| EP \#102 (Frictionless Podcast by Logan Jastremski)
- **Watch at:** 00:33:10 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVrfHDg30-M&t=1990s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2023-09-28-akash-incentives-can-sustain-1-000-1-500-idle-a100-bqhh/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "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), 28 Sept 2023, 00:33:10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVrfHDg30-M&t=1990s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.