# AI centralization is spiking energy prices; only decentralization can coordinate it

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-10-10
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** DePIN: Hype or the Next Trillion-Dollar Market? - TOKEN2049 Singapore 2025 (TOKEN2049)
- **Watch at:** 00:39:18 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr6ZLHwuo2w&t=2358s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-10-10-ai-centralization-is-spiking-energy-prices-only-de-45f2/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "AI centralization is spiking energy prices; only decentralization can coordinate it," DePIN: Hype or the Next Trillion-Dollar Market? - TOKEN2049 Singapore 2025 (TOKEN2049), 10 Oct 2025, 00:39:18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr6ZLHwuo2w&t=2358s

## Quote — verbatim

> Three trillion dollars worth of investment went into AI, mostly buying chips and building data centers... Bloomberg literally wrote a report saying that in Baltimore, where you have data centers, the cost of energy went up by 280% in five years — that's because of AI centralization... I don't see any other way that this industry can come together without decentralization.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Closing answer on how DePIN reaches a trillion-dollar market: "you're not building companies, you're building networks" — decentralization brings coordination against competition. (Baltimore figure falls in the [00:40:02] block.)