# The real bottleneck is power, not compute

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-05-20
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Hash Rate - Ep 050 - Akash Decentralized Cloud - Greg Osury (Hash Rate Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:57 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6niawECR8A&t=477s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2024-05-20-the-real-bottleneck-is-power-not-compute-z4hd/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The real bottleneck is power, not compute," Hash Rate - Ep 050 - Akash Decentralized Cloud - Greg Osury (Hash Rate Podcast), 20 May 2024, 00:07:57. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6niawECR8A&t=477s

## Quote — verbatim

> The real bottleneck for scalability is not compute at a scale, it's really the power... and power is heavily regulated in the United States... decentralization of power is very needed.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Explaining why Nvidia's DGX Cloud "failed miserably — they couldn't secure enough power to do a 20 megawatt data center"; decentralized deployment sidesteps concentrated power requirements.