# GPUs are a wrapper on energy

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-06-03
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Scaling Web3 and AI through DePIN with Greg Osuri! (Secret Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:32:40 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWw18D8zUto&t=1960s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-06-03-gpus-are-a-wrapper-on-energy-rp4n/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "GPUs are a wrapper on energy," Scaling Web3 and AI through DePIN with Greg Osuri! (Secret Network), 3 Jun 2025, 00:32:40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWw18D8zUto&t=1960s

## Quote — verbatim

> If you're making about 10 cents a kilowatt hour, using Akash you're literally selling energy for... a dollar fifty, because you're adding GPUs on top of it. Think of GPUs as a wrapper on energy in terms of income.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Discussing DePIN energy plays (Daylight Energy, a16z-funded) and California's solar duck-curve; at 00:33:23 he adds "energy is layer one, compute is layer two... energy is the most fundamental unit."