# Rooftop solar is the cheapest energy: a Texas ranch roof yields \~80 kW

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-07-31
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:28:40 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-07-31-rooftop-solar-is-the-cheapest-energy-a-texas-ranch-p7mv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Rooftop solar is the cheapest energy: a Texas ranch roof yields \~80 kW," Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast), 31 Jul 2025, 00:28:40. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134

## Quote — verbatim

> The cheapest is solar and a home and wind. Well, every house has a rooftop. We just don't use a rooftop. Like in Texas, a typical ranch house has 4,000 square feet of rooftop. That generates about 80 kilowatt energy for six hours a day.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

After walking unit economics: Gen-3 nuclear ~15¢+/kWh, natural gas ~10¢, diesel 32¢. He then holds up a StarCluster prototype box with a 4090 GPU running at his home [00:29:27].