# Decentralization is a national-security advantage

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-07-01
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Superintelligence Needs The Supercloud Why the AI Revolution... \| PMLS 2025 \| Day 3 \| Open Source AI (Blockworks)
- **Watch at:** 00:15:43 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBHsD1bgtvc&t=943s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2025-07-01-decentralization-is-a-national-security-advantage-lpot/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Decentralization is a national-security advantage," Superintelligence Needs The Supercloud Why the AI Revolution... \| PMLS 2025 \| Day 3 \| Open Source AI (Blockworks), 1 Jul 2025, 00:15:43. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBHsD1bgtvc&t=943s

## Quote — verbatim

> When compute lives in a dozen hyperscale zones, it's easy to surveil, easy to disrupt, easy to control. But when compute lives in 12,000 locations it's resilient, it's redundant, and it's harder to censor, harder to kill, and harder to co-opt... We don't win the AI age by concentrating compute. We win by distributing it. And that's the American advantage.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The geopolitical close — "defense by distribution, security by architecture" — followed by five policy asks including rooftop-solar-style permitting for small data centers and SMR licensing.