Ten million servers sit comatose while 76% struggle with cloud costs
S1E2 - Greg Osuri (CryptoChange.News)
“RightScale… they quantified it saying 76% of the respondents complained managing cloud cost is a big problem… And on the other side, you have 85% of server capacity across the globe that’s not used. I think Stanford did a study in 2015… they estimated that about 10 million servers are in [a] comatose state… Not touched for six months.” — 00:41:31
Context: The data behind Akash’s founding thesis (quote spans into the 00:42:12 block); he says the tech to exploit it took three years to build because “making an application work anywhere in the world on any data center is not easy.”