# Efficiency over expansion — reuse deployed compute

- **Speaker:** Unknown
- **Attribution:** uncertain
- **Said:** 2022-12-11
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Ask Akash - What problem does Akash solve? Can it scale? (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:55 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maqn563IeRY&t=175s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2022-12-11-efficiency-over-expansion-reuse-deployed-compute-ln7f/
- **Cite as:** Unknown, "Efficiency over expansion — reuse deployed compute," Ask Akash - What problem does Akash solve? Can it scale? (Akash Network), 11 Dec 2022, 00:02:55. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maqn563IeRY&t=175s

## Quote — verbatim

> A lot of times when you have a server that's sitting out there that's turned on, the carbon emissions is not just the server but the cooling systems and the whole ecosystem around keeping those lights on. Instead of trying to be expansionary to get more power, we're looking to be more reusable — we're looking inwards to open up what we have already deployed and make that more usable.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Energy/carbon framing of the compute-utilization thesis, years before his AI-energy arguments. **Speaker:** uncredited Ask Akash answer; likely Greg.