# Ten million servers sit comatose while 76% struggle with cloud costs

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2018-06-15
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** S1E2 - Greg Osuri (CryptoChange.News)
- **Watch at:** 00:41:31 — https://archive.org/details/CryptoEp2GregOsuri
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2018-06-15-ten-million-servers-sit-comatose-while-76-struggle-eebq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Ten million servers sit comatose while 76% struggle with cloud costs," S1E2 - Greg Osuri (CryptoChange.News), 15 Jun 2018, 00:41:31. https://archive.org/details/CryptoEp2GregOsuri

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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."