# Decentralization is a global energy-efficiency play; "web3 is greener"

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-02-16
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Interview with Greg Osuri of Akash Network (Web3 Working Group)
- **Watch at:** 00:30:16 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFnp7eUw3M&t=1816s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2023-02-16-decentralization-is-a-global-energy-efficiency-pla-4nxt/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Decentralization is a global energy-efficiency play; "web3 is greener"," Interview with Greg Osuri of Akash Network (Web3 Working Group), 16 Feb 2023, 00:30:16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFnp7eUw3M&t=1816s

## Quote — verbatim

> I look at decentralization as a way to improve global energy efficiency for computational resources, just pure and simple... hyperscalers are building new data centers to expand... whereas web3 and decentralization is inward-looking at what we have already deployed... web3 is greener for me. Like, web3 is about efficiency and improving the global energy usage efficiency.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering what web3 infrastructure means; he cites ~7.2 million data centers, mostly underused, with wasted carbon and cooling ([00:28:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFnp7eUw3M&t=1729s)).